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USB Drive Not Recognised — What to Try First
Work through the causes in order before anything that formats. A drive missing a letter or a partition still holds your files, and formatting destroys them.
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File recovery
6 guides tagged “File recovery”.
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Get Back an Older Version of a File You Saved Over
You saved over good work and the file now holds the wrong thing. How version history works in OneDrive, Windows and Google Drive, and when it cannot help.
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Recover an Unsaved or Overwritten Excel File
Excel closed without saving, or you saved over a good workbook. These are two different problems with two different fixes — here is both, in order.
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Recover an Unsaved Word Document
Word closed, crashed or you clicked Don't Save. Here is where Word hides its recovery copies and how to get your document back before the window closes.
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How to Recover a Corrupted Word or Excel File
Open and Repair works more often than people expect. Here is the full order to try, and an honest account of when a damaged file is genuinely unrecoverable.
8 min read
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Recover a Deleted File From OneDrive or Google Drive
Deleted cloud files sit in a recycle bin for about 30 days before they go for good. Here is where each service hides it, and what to do when it is empty.
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