I don't know about a Word file, but in my experience, when it comes to corrupted files, repair means destroy. I have a thumb drive that fairly recently was having some of the files on it corrupted because in my ignorance I was incorrectly using the safely remove hardware utility and in order to continue to use it I did a check disk on it with the repair option checked. The drive did, indeed, become uncorrupted, but the corrupted files were simply no longer there.
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To: "Bookshare Volunteers" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:35 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] how to repair a corrupted word file?
Ok the book I had just finished scanning when my desktop went poof is corrupted. I got the part to transfer files from my old hard drives to mylaptop and it works like a charm. But word won't open the rtf file. It saysit is corrupted (I had just saved it before the poof) and to try "open and repair" instead of just open. I tried that and all I get is a few lines of gibberish. Does anyone else know how to open a corrupted file or is all the hard work just gone? -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb Earn cash for answering trivia questions every 3 hours: http://instantcashsweepstakes.com/invitations/ref_link/49497 See everything I've read this year at: www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html
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