I have been writing a novel for some time now and have always saved my document to my HD and to a USB stick under 3 different names. This has worked out well for the past several weeks. There are about 245 pages to the story

Recently I went to open the document after letting it sit for a few weeks and found that pages 1-84 were just fine. However pages 85-245 were just rows of zeros or Os.

I'd copy and paste a sample, but they do not seem to want to copy and past. Also there is a footer on each page that seems to be 10 x the page number plus a series of the same number:
850 0000850850850


for page 85.

Worst of all, when I opened the other copies of the document they are all similar. I must of saved a bad copy and Sved As the other files as well, as I usually do.

Does anyone have any idea what may have happened or how I can recover it, if possible? Any help is appreciated.

See sample Doc attached.

Thanks

Attached Files

sample.docx (11.3 KB, 13 views)

Now this is weird. The doc I saved from a copy and paste of the final page is all 0s in the original.

When I opened this attachment it is all 1s.

Curiouser and curiouser.