Corrupt Excel

[allisoncooney]

Hi Folks
I recently purchased Zar to get information from a hard disk that was formatted,
I got the relevant files back - but all the Excel files are corrupt - is there anyway of fixing these without purchasing another recovery tool?
Thanks
Allison

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Does the problem only affects Excel files, or some other files as well?

What was the filesystem involved?

[allisoncooney]

Hi
It has just affected the excel files -
Windows XP Pro with Sp3 on a dell optiplex pc.
All help appreciated.
Thanks
I can send you on the log file if you wish?

[Alexey V. Gubin]

I got the log file. However, from the log I suppose the data was not there for the files you want. Did you write something onto the disk after formatting it? If you did, that's probably it. Was it the pure data partition, or was it holding the active Windows installaton as well?

[allisoncooney]

Hiya
I formatted and rebuild the disk with win xp.
It was afterwards the client told me he was missing the john folder.
I didn't copy this folder on. I found this zar software and it worked in the past but not this time at the mo this disk just has the windows active partition.
Can you recommend an excel recovery tool - i have tried some but no luck yet. Client of course does not have a backup.
thanks

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Nope, you're out of luck with it.

See, once you did a rebuild (re-installation), something was definitevily lost, overwritten. After format, there is no control as to which part of the original gets overwritten. This time, it is most likely your data parts of excel files were overwritten.

Just for a cross-check, you can try R-Studio or something similar, but not likely Excel repair tool will help you. This is not a good use case for an Excel repair tool.