Hi

I have a bad xls file. I tried popular excel repair tools, none worked.

When I open using hex editor I can see some data in there. Anyone successfully repaired with software or skilled to do manual repair? Pl PM me

Thank you
-Jag

How did it get bad?

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xls file (but not xlsx) stored in Microsoft Compound File Binary File Format (Documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd942138.aspx). Data stored in different streams and they may be fragmented. It seems a bit on a FS FAT within a file.

if it is actually .xlsx then it is basically a zip file. you could try changing the extension to .zip and seeing what you can extract.

I think you should look for someone that advertises to repair these files. I have seen them out there, may be hard to track down, but they are out there.

I thought Microsoft office keeps some level of backup stored on the computer somewhere, normally in the application data folder inside Microsoft.

Not sure how it got bad, customer claim suddenly became corrupted

It is a xls file and not xlsx

Customers tend to lie and/or neglect to mention salient facts

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200% Agree 99.9% of them Lie to simplify things and let you solve the puzzles which they made
which i suspect, he used App. to recover on the same drive many times written
then been sent to you.

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Yep, we see it all the time.

We had another one recently.

Client says that all they have done is their son had connected their 1tb USB to Xbox and it "formatted it" but did NOTHING else. Should be straightforward enough??

Then of course we find 40gb of Xbox stuff on it, so totally wiping out the file system. We got a raw recovery, but of course she didn't want to pay much for that, not worth the days and days of scanning to try and find the data!

And of course the one where they've "done nothing" after system restore then we find folders containing Gb upon Gb of "recovered" data to the same drive, of course all corrupt. "Oh yeah, my friend did that but I didn't think it was relevant" despite us asking that specific question!!!!

Gaahhhhh!!!!!

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