When I took out my flash drive and put it back in last night, some files were lost??? very strange! so i used some data recovery programs and i recovered some files that went missing from my flash drive but all but 1 were in unreadable format!



They would show up in bizare shapes and characters and I couldnt do anything to format it into the write encoding!!! Is this just permanently damaged or is there something I can do????


Please comment and suggest! GREATLY APPRECIATE IT if this thing gets fixed!!!

Did you save directly to the flash drive? Note that because of the way Word deals with temporary files when reading from and writing to a disc, you should never save directly to removable media. Save to the hard disk and then copy to removable media as appropriate.

To salvage the content, try Open and Repair.

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hey guys, thanks for the help but i recovered the lost/hidden/damaged/currupted file through this program called virtual lab data recovery

phewww! you have no idea how imp those files were.