Thanks for the reply JE

I slaved the drive onto another machine and recovered the data from
there, the drive is dead as the proverbial dodo now

Unfortunately, the colleague in question didn't use network space
provided for her so retrieval from backups is a non-starter.



On Jan 23, 4:02 pm, JE McGimpsey wrote:
Has anyone any ideas on how to resolve this?Recover the updated file from his daily/weekly backup?

It's rather unlikely that "data corruption" would delete a year's data.
Especially if the file was able to be recovered without rebuilding it
(you don't say how you did it).

It's far more likely that the recovered file was saved a year ago.

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wrote:
HI folks

I am hoping someone can help me out here

I recovered an excel file for a colleague from a hard drive that had
died

The problem is that one year's work has somehow disappeared

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