How do I recover a document when Micosoft Word Crashes on its own?

Question

I have my documents saved on a flash drive and when I want to work on them, I put the drive into my laptop and open the documents. I save my documents every 5 minutes to both my laptop and my flash drive. Word automatically crashed and with it my document. I wanted to recover the document that was also on my flash drive and it is gone from the flash drive now as well. What happend and how do I recover my document?

Answer 1

If the Word document exists, but is damaged – for example, it does not display correctly, or in its entirety, or it causes Microsoft Word to behave incorrectly – then you can try to recover as much of the document as you can. There are a number of things you can try to repair a Word document.

If the document can be opened in Microsoft Word



* Save the document to another file format, such as Rich Text (.rtf) or Plain Text (.txt) and then convert it back to Word.

* Copy everything except the last paragraph mark, or all the undamaged portions of the document, to a new document.

* Force Microsoft Word to try to recover the document. In the File, Open dialog box, after selecting the document, click the arrow by the Open button and select Open and Repair.

* Use the Recover Text from Any File converter. In the File, Open dialog box, select "Recover Text from Any File (*.*)". (This converter is only available in Microsoft Word 2002 and later, and may need to be installed.)



If Microsoft Word cannot open the document



* Close Microsoft Word, then click Start, Run, type winword /a and press Enter. Try to open the document using this copy of Word.

* Insert the damaged document into a new document. Create a new document, then click on Insert, File, select the damaged document and click Insert.

* Open the file using WordPad, then re-save it to a new file, or copy the contents and paste them into a new Word document.

* Use the Recover Text from Any File converter. In the File, Open dialog box, select "Recover Text from Any File (*.*)". (This converter is only available in Microsoft Word 2002 and later, and may need to be installed.)



If the recovered Word document is still damaged



* Try using the specialist Microsoft Word document recovery tool DOC Regenerator. This product is often able to repair corrupt Word documents using text found in previously saved copies of the file.



How to recover a deleted Word document



* The first step for deleted Word document recovery is to look in the Recycle Bin!

* If the document is not in the Recycle Bin, and you are sure it must have been deleted recently, then use an undelete or unerase data recovery tool like Uneraser to recover the deleted Word document.



How to recover a lost Word document



* If you don't know how the Word document was lost, if it may have been deleted a long time ago, or if it has been overwritten or corrupted, then it is best to use a specialist Microsoft Word document recovery tool DOC Regenerator. This product is often able to recover Word documents even when parts of the original file have been overwritten, by searching for previously saved copies made while the document was being created and edited.

Answer 2

If the laptop, you are using crashes while you are working on a document, you will probably have lost some information, but you should be able to recover the last saved auto version. Otherwise you try any professional tool.



You can find more useful information on how to recover deleted files at here :



http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Recover-Corrupt-MS-Word-f45d0417

and

http://msofficerecovery.blogspot.com/p/ms-word-document.html

Answer 3

The best way is to download Ccleaner here http://bitly.com/UrALrK



Or you can go on Windows operating system locate the command prompt and go there to do the following:

Create a Recovery file of system and date it today.



Then begin by;

delete the 'Temp' folders..they have hidden subfolders so you need to set the attributes in order to bypass this. For each subfolder delete all cookies and rubbish left behnd after install-uninstalled programs. Do a 'dir' command to check your progress. Make sure the 'Temp' file is empty.



goto c:\windows\prefetch and delete everything in there..no exceptions



goto c:\windows folder and delete all the '$' files that have been installed by updates. They can all be succesfully deleted and just take up disk space.



Locate the Internet Temporary Files..Check to see how high the saving level is..some have it set at 30 days..but that stores faaaar tooo much data..though it slows down the system overal. Keep this to a minimum..suggest 2 or 5 at most.



Delete all 'cookies' all those you don't need.



Locate the windows directory and go through the folders you know and those you don't need. Check this once a week at least. Some programs will install under XP as NT and older systems where there is no check of systems weight.



Check to see that system files have not changed since last booting. Things like .ini files or .bat are important items.





Check for 'Hidden Directories' all over the disk...do this at the command prompt:



dir *.* /ah wil show these hidden directories



Check the 'dir' command for all parameters

Answer 4

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