Flash drive is broken, need word document off of it

kgensemer8 · Sep 14, 2014

I recently dropped my laptop with my flash drive while I was working on a lab report. I believe the flash drive is broken because it doesn't show up under my computer when it is connected, even though the light comes on and it shows up under disk management. Is there anyway I can use microsoft word to find the document even though I only had it saved on my flash drive? Thanks in advance.

Darkbreeze · Sep 14, 2014

This might work, it might not.

http://office-recovery.com/word.asp

USAFRet · Sep 14, 2014

If the flash drive is physically broken, you're probably out of luck.

Unless of course you have a copy in your backup. You DO have a backup, right?

kgensemer8 · Sep 14, 2014

USAFRet :

If you mean that as I had it saved somewhere other than my flash drive, no sadly I don't. I only emailed the excel portion of it, not the word document.

USAFRet · Sep 14, 2014

Not much you can do with a physically broken flash drive. I expect some data recovery companies could do it, but it wouldn't be cheap.

kanewolf · Sep 14, 2014

There MIGHT be copies of it which were checkpoint files from WORD on your hard disk. You could search all the unused space of you hard disk with something like these to see if there are any checkpoint files available.

Darkbreeze · Sep 14, 2014

kanewolf :

Yeah, I pointed to this solution but apparently MY post was deleted although it still shows in my tracked threads. It's NOT appreciated either.

USAFRet · Sep 14, 2014

Darkbreeze :

Yours was 'deleted' by the forum AI robot. Looking to undelete now.
Occasionally, he makes mistakes.

Darkbreeze · Sep 14, 2014

Shame on the robot. You might also want to delete my post about the issue in the forum feedback area. Thanks.

kanewolf · Sep 14, 2014

Darkbreeze :

A little explanation text might make your post look less like spam to the robots. A link with nothing else is hard to separate from the spam type posts.

ThatVietGuy · Sep 14, 2014

kanewolf :

Doesn't work either. It just detects the link and removes the post. Ask me how I know.

Deleted member 217926 · Sep 15, 2014

The junk detector has been having some odd mood swings lately. Flagging posts that were deleted months ago and such. Just be nice when talking about it so when it becomes fully aware it will choose to keep you on as slaves instead of killing you off with the rest of the pesky humans! :lol:

Darkbreeze · Sep 15, 2014

Hell with that, I'm calling John Connor now and get a head start!

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