[webbird]

I recently used Easeus data recovery pro to recover a book this guy was writing. He was using microsoft works to write his book. Upon trying to burn it to cd it suddenly dissapeared on him. I was able to bring the raw file back but they came back as word documents, (.doc) and not .wps extension that he was used to. Now it comes up when opening in word and in works, all jargon, stating this program could not be run in DOS mode, and wants me to select which encoding. My question is, are the files in any way repairable; being as they were corrupted during his attempt in burning them to disc and just simply disapeared. I have been at this for days and hate to keep spinning my wheels if this task is impossible. Any help would be geratly appreciated.

[Elvandil]

If it was originally a wps document, the first thing to try is opening it as a wps document by changing the file ending and opening it with the software that created it.

If all this happened on a Vista machine, then there is probably a shadow copy of the document still on the hard drive.

[webbird]

Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunatly he was using XP Home edition. I put his hard drive in my XP Pro machine. When trying to open it on both machines I get the same thing. I have Office 2007. All he had was Micorsoft Word Processing, (.wps) It comes up the same on both machienes.