I recovered some files recently from a drive I couldn't access after a recent
upgrade to XP SP3 and when I open the txt file, which I originally wrote in
Notepad, the text itself is, well, messed up.

Is there anyway to recover the text from these files? A different setting?
Maybe a program?

Any help is appreciated... thanks!

"Pimpedoutgeese" <Pimpedoutgeese@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2DC80823-E8F3-4FC7-96F2-AD6D5953B9C7@microsoft.com...
>I recovered some files recently from a drive I couldn't access after a
>recent
> upgrade to XP SP3 and when I open the txt file, which I originally wrote
> in
> Notepad, the text itself is, well, messed up.
>
> Is there anyway to recover the text from these files? A different
> setting?
> Maybe a program?
>
> Any help is appreciated... thanks!

Please define "messed up". Remember - we can't see your screen!
It would help tremendously if you could post the first few screen
output lines of this command:
- Click Start / Run
- Type this: debug "c:\documents and
settings\pimp\docs\something.txt"{Enter}
- Tap the "D" letter on your keyboard and press {Enter}

I'm sorry Pegasus.. I found out what you were talking about.

:Here is the first few lines:
1379:0100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1379:0110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 34 00 68 13
1379:0120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1379:0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

If you need more then this just let me know.

"Pimpedoutgeese" wrote:

> I recovered some files recently from a drive I couldn't access after a recent
> upgrade to XP SP3 and when I open the txt file, which I originally wrote in
> Notepad, the text itself is, well, messed up.
>
> Is there anyway to recover the text from these files? A different setting?
> Maybe a program?
>
> Any help is appreciated... thanks!

This is obviously not a text file. The collection of 00s tells me that
you're dealing with a binary data file. What makes you think that
it should be a text file (other than its incorrect .txt extension)?


"Pimpedoutgeese" <Pimpedoutgeese@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1763CB37-E8B7-4B72-8541-DAD5F6D8DD9C@microsoft.com...
> I'm sorry Pegasus.. I found out what you were talking about.
>
> :Here is the first few lines:
> 1379:0100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 1379:0110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 34 00 68 13
> 1379:0120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 1379:0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
> If you need more then this just let me know.
>
> "Pimpedoutgeese" wrote:
>
>> I recovered some files recently from a drive I couldn't access after a
>> recent
>> upgrade to XP SP3 and when I open the txt file, which I originally wrote
>> in
>> Notepad, the text itself is, well, messed up.
>>
>> Is there anyway to recover the text from these files? A different
>> setting?
>> Maybe a program?
>>
>> Any help is appreciated... thanks!

Looks more like a HEX

--
Peter

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"Pimpedoutgeese" <Pimpedoutgeese@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1763CB37-E8B7-4B72-8541-DAD5F6D8DD9C@microsoft.com...
> I'm sorry Pegasus.. I found out what you were talking about.
>
> :Here is the first few lines:
> 1379:0100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 1379:0110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 34 00 68 13
> 1379:0120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 1379:0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
> If you need more then this just let me know.
>
> "Pimpedoutgeese" wrote:
>
>> I recovered some files recently from a drive I couldn't access after a recent
>> upgrade to XP SP3 and when I open the txt file, which I originally wrote in
>> Notepad, the text itself is, well, messed up.
>>
>> Is there anyway to recover the text from these files? A different setting?
>> Maybe a program?
>>
>> Any help is appreciated... thanks!

Because I wrote and saved the file myself. It was originally a text file.
Could have happened in the recovery of the file. Let me try and pull it off
the other harddrive. I'll post afterwards.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

> This is obviously not a text file. The collection of 00s tells me that
> you're dealing with a binary data file. What makes you think that
> it should be a text file (other than its incorrect .txt extension)?
>
>
> "Pimpedoutgeese" <Pimpedoutgeese@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1763CB37-E8B7-4B72-8541-DAD5F6D8DD9C@microsoft.com...
> > I'm sorry Pegasus.. I found out what you were talking about.
> >
> > :Here is the first few lines:
> > 1379:0100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > 1379:0110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 34 00 68 13
> > 1379:0120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > 1379:0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >
> > If you need more then this just let me know.
> >
> > "Pimpedoutgeese" wrote:
> >
> >> I recovered some files recently from a drive I couldn't access after a
> >> recent
> >> upgrade to XP SP3 and when I open the txt file, which I originally wrote
> >> in
> >> Notepad, the text itself is, well, messed up.
> >>
> >> Is there anyway to recover the text from these files? A different
> >> setting?
> >> Maybe a program?
> >>
> >> Any help is appreciated... thanks!
>
>
>