How do I restore text to a blank WordPad document?

Question

My computer crashed while I had a document open in WordPad. When I opened the document later, the entire thing was blank, yet was still as "long" as my document had been. Furthermore, when I highlight where text should be, it finds things to highlight, but there's no text (for example, when you highlight white text, even if you can't see it on white background, it would show up - in this case, nothing shows up). I've tried restoring previous versions of the file, and while those are all perfectly intact, I am in dire need of a more recent version.

What can I do to get back a more recent version of my file or restore the text in the one I have now? I've tried saving it in different formats, using different programs, all kinds of things, but nothing appears to be working. I would really, really appreciate anything that can be done to help!

Answer 1

According to time-line, you posted this question about a week ago, so even if you HAD some slight possibility to recover that file at the moment the "disaster" happened, by now quite probably there isn't any.

Anyway, may I give you some help to try and it might help you in the future.

1. Stop doing anything more with your computer. Each time you open a file, save a files, access Internet etc, your chance to recover lost information is LESS.

2. Get a recovery application. You have at this site 17 Free data recovery software tools

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm

I understand that the better is RECUVA

3. Run your recovery application form a different HD or form a pendrive. You haven't mentioned in what format was your lost file, presume it's RTF so try to recover RTF files!



What you can do with that "blank" WordPad file? Change extension to TXT and open it with Notepad and check if anything useful there.



Finally, WordPad is a basic word processor. and it has no file recovery procedure. If you can't have MS Office, you can get it's FREE alike, Open Office.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You can't.