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EMERGENCY.. NEED HELP!
 
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Default EMERGENCY... is it possible to recover?

It just happened to my boyfriend.. he was saving all his work in WORD on his
floppy... it showed it was saved into the floppy then he closed the Word file.
He dragged a dropped the new file into his hard drive and overwrote all the
old file with the newest file from the floppy.

When he opened the file... the newest file was gone!!
All the files in the floppy and hard drive are the old one.

Is there any way to restore it?

Thank you
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Its gone. For future reference...

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in Word, act
as if your floppy drive does not exist. (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as
well.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on a floppy
Print a document on a floppy
Edit a document on a floppy
Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough
prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted
disk each time you save and don't do any editing.


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It just happened to my boyfriend.. he was saving all his work in WORD on
his
floppy... it showed it was saved into the floppy then he closed the Word
file.
He dragged a dropped the new file into his hard drive and overwrote all
the
old file with the newest file from the floppy.

When he opened the file... the newest file was gone!!
All the files in the floppy and hard drive are the old one.

Is there any way to restore it?

Thank you



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