Excel Corrupted Spreadsheet Challenge

[Smallend]

Can anyone assist with a FREE tool which will recover a corrupted Excel spreadsheet?

I have so far managed to find a couple of tools which give the impression of being free, recover the data and tease you with the results in a graphical format, but then want to charge $49 to let you save the recovered data.

I've tried to search in 'Computers, Gadgets & Stuff', but seems the Search tool is playing up.

Thanks in advance

[craste]

Have you tried running a disk check on the disk its stored to see if it can repair any errors/bad sectors - you never know it might work.

[Smallend]

Thanks for the idea, but it's on a corporate shared drive.

I pulled a copy across to my local C: drive and the demo recovery programs still managed to find the original data from this copy...

It's in there, but I don't want to pay $49 for it!

[sadako]

in excel 2003:

file, open, highlight file, click dropdown beside "OPEN" button, click "Open and repair"

[sadako]

Smallend said:

Thanks for the idea, but it's on a corporate shared drive.

I pulled a copy across to my local C: drive and the demo recovery programs still managed to find the original data from this copy...

It's in there, but I don't want to pay $49 for it!

On a corporate shared drive?

"Oh hi helpdesk? Can you please get this file at this location recovered off the backup tape from this date? Thanks."

[Smallend]

sadako said:

Smallend said:

Thanks for the idea, but it's on a corporate shared drive.

I pulled a copy across to my local C: drive and the demo recovery programs still managed to find the original data from this copy...

It's in there, but I don't want to pay $49 for it!

On a corporate shared drive?

"Oh hi helpdesk? Can you please get this file at this location recovered off the backup tape from this date? Thanks."

You haven't dealt with our 'Help'-desk have you?!?!

Your other idea has just recovered the data as text though... which has saved a few hours of manual labour...

Thanks

[sadako]

Smallend said:

sadako said:

Smallend said:

Thanks for the idea, but it's on a corporate shared drive.

I pulled a copy across to my local C: drive and the demo recovery programs still managed to find the original data from this copy...

It's in there, but I don't want to pay $49 for it!

On a corporate shared drive?

"Oh hi helpdesk? Can you please get this file at this location recovered off the backup tape from this date? Thanks."

You haven't dealt with our 'Help'-desk have you?!?!

Your other idea has just recovered the data as text though... which has saved a few hours of manual labour...

Thanks

No probs.

[Man-At-Arms]

sadako said:

Smallend said:

Thanks for the idea, but it's on a corporate shared drive.

I pulled a copy across to my local C: drive and the demo recovery programs still managed to find the original data from this copy...

It's in there, but I don't want to pay $49 for it!

On a corporate shared drive?

"Oh hi helpdesk? Can you please get this file at this location recovered off the backup tape from this date? Thanks."

don't even need to dig out the tape, they should be using Volume Shadow Copy

in Windows Explorer, right click on the ETA: parent directory of the file, and look for the Previous Versions tab, double click on the day/time of shadow you want to resurrect

Edited by Man-At-Arms on Thursday 11th February 17:36