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so, there I was working on a spreadsheet, when my trusty laptop decided it didn't want to play and died.
So, I restarted it, getting the prompt to "Scan Drive" so I let Windows continue and eventually load up. Off I go to reopen the spreadsheet I was working on, an Auto save event fired, "did I want to open the autosaved version" Yes, of course I do! Then it reports it can't open the autosave file not to worry I'll open the original file, it was only about 15 mins earlier I'd saved it. File is corrupt, would you like to repair it oh well, guess I must. Excel then reports it's been unable to recover the document and all it can offer is to provide me with the formulae. I should add even this was only about 10% of the formulae
So, what can I do
Well other files etc on the USB drive are all ok. Sod it, I'll scandisk and defrag, things cant get any worse.
So, after a scandisk and defrag of the USB drive I now get
"DRIVE IS NOT FORMATTED. FORMAT NOW?"
so looks like I'll be trying the Sandisk recovery Pro CD when I get home this evening, I know I've put it somewhere safe!
Really annoyed with myself more than anything as last night I thought "best back up the drive just in case", then got sidetracked :bang:
Fingers crossed I can recover the rest of the data, although it looks like the spreadsheet is dead!
So, I restarted it, getting the prompt to "Scan Drive" so I let Windows continue and eventually load up. Off I go to reopen the spreadsheet I was working on, an Auto save event fired, "did I want to open the autosaved version" Yes, of course I do! Then it reports it can't open the autosave file not to worry I'll open the original file, it was only about 15 mins earlier I'd saved it. File is corrupt, would you like to repair it oh well, guess I must. Excel then reports it's been unable to recover the document and all it can offer is to provide me with the formulae. I should add even this was only about 10% of the formulae
So, what can I do
Well other files etc on the USB drive are all ok. Sod it, I'll scandisk and defrag, things cant get any worse.
So, after a scandisk and defrag of the USB drive I now get
"DRIVE IS NOT FORMATTED. FORMAT NOW?"
so looks like I'll be trying the Sandisk recovery Pro CD when I get home this evening, I know I've put it somewhere safe!
Really annoyed with myself more than anything as last night I thought "best back up the drive just in case", then got sidetracked :bang:
Fingers crossed I can recover the rest of the data, although it looks like the spreadsheet is dead!