Damaged Excel File on Floppy Disk or Network drive

MS Excel is a popular spreadsheet application, provided by Microsoft. The application uses ‘back seeking’ as a technique to read and write its files. In this process, MS Excel doesn’t read/write data in sequential manner, but instead does it randomly. As an example, it may jump between records to read/write the information. As a result of this, your Excel files can get corrupt. The probability of corruption increases when you save Excel files to a floppy disk drive or network drive. In such

cases, you need to restore lost data from an updated and valid data backup. But, if you face issues during restoration of data, you will require commercial Excel Repair solutions to scan and repair your damaged Excel files.

Consider a scenario, you try to open an Excel file from a floppy disk drive or network drive and it fails. Alternatively, you get corruption errors that the file is unreadable or you observe unreadable characters in file.

Cause
The Excel file is damaged or corrupt. Excel file saved on floppy disk drive or network drive can go corrupt due to ‘back seeking’ technique that MS Excel uses to read/write data. This can also occur if a conflict occurs when MS Windows virtualizes hard disk controller.

Solution
To repair damaged Excel file, you can use these methods:

• You can save the affected file in HTML format
• Use Revert To Saved Document command and try to repair the file
• You can use external references in order to link to the damaged file
• Attempt to open the file in MS Excel Viewer and MS Word
• If any charts are linked to the damaged Excel file, you can use a macro and extract the data
• You can also use MS Excel File Recovery Macro
• If the problem persists, delete your damaged file and restore it from recent file backup
• If the backup is invalid or not available, you can use third party excel recovery tools. You can scan your damaged file and safely get the file repaired. These are safe and graphically rich Excel Recovery applications.

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