Corrupt PW Protected Doc file help!

[Sushi9]

Newbie to the site so I hope I'm in the right section, apologies in advance if I'm not.

I had a password protected MS Word Doc on a HD that crashed. I recovered the file, I know the PW, but MSWord won't even ask me for the PW, it just asks what encoding I want to use.

Hoping someone smarter than me might have some insight as to how to get into the file?

Much thanks!

 

[CaptainCretin]

Re: corrupt PW protected MS Word Doc help!

You have tried notepad/wordpad?? Be prepared to discover that the "recovered" file is full of garbage though; what program did you use to recover it?? Recuva is my weapon of choice.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin.]

Re: corrupt PW protected MS Word Doc help!

Yes recuva is a good bit of sw.
Recuva - Download

 

[maggot]

try opening the document with notepad and wordpad see if that works, if not try uploading the file to an online convertor, convert the file to a word doc, yes I know thats what you havw already but the conversion may fix the file.

depending on when this all happened you may be able to recover a temp copy that Office saves into a temp folder whislst editing / creating a document

 

[Sushi9]

Re: corrupt PW protected MS Word Doc help!

I really appreciate the quick responses. I recovered with Recuva, yes. I have the Doc file on my desktop. When i try to open with MS Word (or Wordpad as you suggested), it asked me for encoding choices and then i get gobblygook. Am I outta luck? I think the issue is that it was PW protected and MS Word is NOT asking me for the password, so it's opening the encrypted file

 

[Sushi9]

Maggot, I'll try this, thanks! (probably the only time in my life that I'll say "Maggot, I'll try this"!!) ... didn't work. I think the issue is that it was PW protected and MS Word is NOT asking me for the password, so it's opening the encrypted file

 

[ManofScience]

Open Word first then Try Open > Click the 'file type' box and select 'recover text from any file' but i suspect it's knackered

 

[maggot]

lol, No trouble fella let me know how you get on

 

[hatab]

worth giving this a try Kernel Word Recovery Software - Fix & Repair Corrupt Word documents - Word Repair Tool specifically for pw protected files.

there is a demo that will show you what it can do with your file but you cant save it.... but at least you can see if the software can do the business.