Word Doucment Gibberish?

[youngnetworkadmin]

Ok heres the problem, We had to reformat a users computer and after we did that when we borought the doucments back over they were corrupted, not corruped like missing or anything but when you open them up they are in complete gibberish like this

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Thats what its doing an we have not run into this before.... Do any of you know any solutions

 

[fumei]

1. Please state version.
2. Describe "back over".
3. Have you tried opening them as "Recover text from any file" - depending of course if you have that feature with your version, which I don't know.

Gerry

 

[youngnetworkadmin]

The version of word is 2000 and i will try opening it like that as well, i have a copy of 2003 on my computer so i will see if that can take care of it. When i say backover i mean we put the doucments back over on the computer that we reformated

 

[Madawc]

The first part of the gibberish looks rather like hexadecimal code - that's base 16, with A, B, C, D, E and F used for numerals after 9.

I suspect that something has caused ASCII documents to be interpreted as EBCDIC, or vice versa. Try checking to see if the codes make any sense - see faq68-5591 for details.

How you get out of this, I can't advise. Except you could try opening using Notes or Wordpad.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10

 

[tsh73]

So do you have many files like that?
Can you see the file in binary (open with FAR I dunno - not Word), search for recognizable text strings? Like, my word documents have "Word.Document.8" or strings like that.
Thing you posted rather looks like graphic file (??) or part of it.

Were it actually word *.DOC files?

 

[tf1]

What medium did you use to save the users documents before you reformatted the HDD?

As stated above, these don't look like Word Document coding but more like a graphics file code.


Regards: tf1

 

[youngnetworkadmin]

the medium that i used was a pen drive and it was in perfect working order

 

[fumei]

And they were .DOC files?

Gerry

 

[tf1]

If they are Word documents, load them onto a machine with Word 2003 and try the Open & Repair option. If that doesn't work, try the Recover text from Any File option.


Regards: tf1

 

[youngnetworkadmin]

Yes they are .doc ok will try that and get back to you on it