File corrupted

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Ok, i think one of my hard drives might be dying AGAIN!!

Windows is telling me that one of my Excel files is corrupted or unreadable. Ive also had music stuttering or failing to play when reading off this drive and windows runing chkdsk on it before widows starts up.

So is there any way that i can open this file?

Thanks.

 

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1 way possibily, it saved me for a HDD after mobo fried and claimed HDD was RAW and needed formated.

Lifesaver > http://quetek.com/prod02.htm

If small file you can get it back for free, I had gigs of stuff 1 week odl and backup is weekly so it was worth the near $60.

Thank you so much, that has saved my bacon
I'm gona keep a copy of that program, as i expet i might have to use it again.

Also another little question someone might know, is it possible for a motherboard to kill a hard drive? As ive had more than my fair share of them dying and this seems to be the only possible cause now

 

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Yeah i did it was only 18kb which was lucky

Now to sort out this stupid hard drive......

 

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Have you got a link to a pogram that will do a Full low level Format? I have a 500Gb Samsung by the way. (Its the second Samsung 500Gb i have had, the first one did a similar thing as well )