Recovering overwritten word document

Hey guys,

This is on a friends computer:

We've written a 4000 word essay and she accidentally overwrote it with another word document. Is there any way of recovering it?

I already tried the .asd files but she couldn't get them to open, so I said email them to me, and when she tried to do that it gave an error about packing the file and now the .asd files don't exist.

Is there any way we can get this document back? If we can't, we lose about 1000 words

Tom

Have you tried shadow explorer.
ShadowExplorer.com - About
It can be used on Vista
If she has Windows Seven, you can use backup and restore, which is part of the OS.

richc46 said:

Have you tried shadow explorer.
ShadowExplorer.com - About
It can be used on Vista
If she has Windows Seven, you can use backup and restore, which is part of the OS.

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No shadow copies or backups have been made which would contain the file

We've started to re-write the missing 1000 words now, so thank you for your help, but I think its a lost cause

Tom

The copies are made by default, did you check to see if any were made?

richc46 said:

The copies are made by default, did you check to see if any were made?

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Yeah but there wasn't anything there

Tom

Can this help.

TestDisk - CGSecurity