Hi Nick,

I had a really important excel file saved with a lot of data on a external hard drive. Somebody unplugged the drive from my computer without safely removing the hardware. I was able to recover everything on the hard drive but the most important file on there is now corrupted. The excel file has ~$ in front of it. I have been trying every program possible but nothing has worked. I followed all the tips listed on tons of websites as well.

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Good day,

To manually repair a file of MS Excel 97-2003

1. On the File menu, click Open.

2. In the Open dialog box, select the file you want to open, and click the arrow next to the Open button.

3. Click Open and Repair, and then choose which method you want to use to recover your workbook.

For MS Excel 2007 another commands

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button Button image, and then click Open.

2. In the Open dialog box, select the corrupted workbook that you want to open.

3. Click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open and Repair.

4. Do one of the following:

To recover as much of the workbook data as possible, click Repair.

To extract values and formulas from the workbook when an attempt to repair the workbook is not successful, click Extract Data.

Check out this article to see much more about Excel file recovery process:- http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-ways-to-recover-a-corrupte...

If all above methods don’t work, then you may try third-party tools such as Excel Fix Toolbox from source: http://www.excel.fixtoolbox.com/

You may use it to recover some Excel files successfully. It provides a free demo version so that you can try to see if the data you want can be recovered or not.

Good luck!

Hi,
When I open one specific Excel file, I got the message stating that" Excel cannot complete this task with avaulable resources. Choose less data or close other applications". Then I set the priority to high for excel.exe. But seems there is no change.

Also, I could not save the file after I edited it.
I tried to create a new excel file and copy all contents to the new file. I still cannot save the new file.

Any solution for this? Thank you.

Regards,
Janine

hi Nick. my excel file corrupted in such different condition.. when i open the file, it says the file is corrupt,and ask me whether i want to open it anyway or not. so i click "yes", and it says "file not loaded completely". then i click "OK", the file open, and my spreadsheet got weird symbols came out for almost thousands of line (my data messed up i think).. then i tried ur method, of course the corrupt dialog doesn't shows up anymore, but my data still messed up, altered with weird symbols still there.. please help me.. i got very important data in it..

I tried the method you suggested, however the file size remains the same and it is very slow when I try to use copy/paste, delete columns, go from one to another sheet.

The file size is 1.57 MB.

Please suggest.

Thanks,
Sam

Hi Nick,

I noticed that you draged the sheets to the new workbook. so they disappeared from the odd file.
Could I create a copy of the sheets instead of draging them ?(they will remain in the odd file and be transferred to the new one). will the file be uncorrupted if i do that?

Thanks