Hi all!
i have a disk that has been deleted and overwritten, and i need to recover documents from it. i ran some data recovery programs (get data back, dmde and r-studio) and they all recover the file structure with files, but the data is corupted.

my question: is there a way that i could read those corupted files?

i tried with several doc repair apps (docrepair, wordrepair and easyrecovery) but without luck.

any kind of help would be appreciated

Regards,
Darko
Croatia

Highly unlikely that the files can be repaired.
When you say overwritten, what exactly do you mean? Can you explain how much data you had saved on the drive before (thinking about those files you need to recover now) and then how much have you overwritten with? Also, what is the drive's capacity and is it older in terms of considering the fragmentation on the old data? Does the drive have any bad sectors?
Either way, if you really want to recover/repair these files you are looking at a ton of work without much hope of actually recovering them!

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Thanks for your reply.

What happened was that a virus created a blank temporary profile folder (windows XP). So i transfered all the documents into the temporary folder - which was the dumbest thing i did in my life probably . When the computer restarted, the documents were gone, and the virus created a new temporary profile folder - probably over my deleted documents.

The disk is old, 40Gb 2.5" pAta Fujitsu HDD, and i lost less then 100Mb of documents (little over 150 files).

A couple of easy things to try are the following:
Create a clone of the Fujitsu drive and run GDB in default and/or deleted modes on the clone. If lucky, you may find your files under the Lost and Found folders.

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts