Computer rebooted with Word 2007 having several documents open and more in the document recovery task pane but when restarting Word, the recovery task pane does not open. The only *.wbk files I can find are Backup of *.wbk and quite old.



Any practical way to find the missing files? I did quite a lot of work since rebooting before discovering this so finding fles in unalocated disk space is not likely to work.

The Back up of *.wbk files are backup files, not file recovery files.
See Automatically backup Word documents by Graham Mayor, MVP.


You are looking for files in the format *.asd. These are special, not Word documents.

• How to Recover Unsaved Office Word Documents in 2007 | Small Business - Chron.com
• How to Open/Recover ASD File on Word 97-2003/2007/2010/2013/2016/2019

Here are a couple of videos: (Office button instead of File)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSCwrD-cUq4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsmtJTlav5o