txt file recovery

[Steven_96]

I have a question .

I lost a bunch of files on my slave drive in windows 10 they just dissapeared. Now I bought a software program called Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery and I was able to recover the files but there is a txt file that had a lkot of online usernbames and passwords stored in it. I think it was a notepad or word pad. And the software has found the file but when I go to open it to view the contents. It just shows me a bunch of garbled text. Is there anyway that I can fix this to show the online passwords again? I would really appreciate any help.

Thanks

Steven

 

[androbourne]

Sounds like the files are encrypted. So most likely not.

 

[Steven_96]

But how would I check to see if it is. It's just a txt file. And if it's not would there be a way to recover the contents inside the file?

 

[androbourne]

Well normally garbled text is a good way to tell... it depends on how or what encrypted it.

You could have gotten the crypto virus that is going around which encrypted your data. Might explain why you saw it disappear.

Or it could have been encrypted by another program or by Windows. Try to right click on it and to properties. Look there to see if encryption is enabled by Windows.

Another issue could be that the drive is dying and that sector went bad. Which would also explain why the files just disappeared and texted is garbled because of a corruption.

 

[Steven_96]

It doesn't say on any of the tabs including the details tab

 

[androbourne]

Right click folder and on General tab, select Advanced. At the bottom there is a toggle for Windows encryption.

 

[Steven_96]

I will send a screenshot

 

[Steven_96]

Right click folder and on General tab, select Advanced. At the bottom there is a toggle for Windows encryption.

It's not. Encrypted

 

[androbourne]

Well sounds like it is either encrypted by a 3rd party program or corrupted. Aside from trying to use some program to recreate the damaged files. I don't think there is much you can do.

Ways this on a secondary disk or your primary OS? Did any other files get effected by this or only those specific files?

 

[Steven_96]

Right click folder and on General tab, select Advanced. At the bottom there is a toggle for Windows encryption.

 

[Steven_96]

Well sounds like it is either encrypted by a 3rd party program or corrupted. Aside from trying to use some program to recreate the damaged files. I don't think there is much you can do.

Ways this on a secondary disk or your primary OS? Did any other files get effected by this or only those specific files?[/quotemsg

This was on a secondary drive or a slave drive I was on the phone with tech support last night. I had already lost my files before contacting tech support but I could not create a new folder or read or write to the drive or anything I could just open it and use the littlle files that were already in there. So this is what they had me do. And now the drive is working again but I had to use stellar Phoenix Data recovery to get the files back. And now I can't see the Online passwords in the txt file. I was going to send you the txt file but it will not let me do it tiny pc.com it says invalid format but so I will tell you we reset the disk permissions using the diskpart command in command prompt. Because I needed permission to use the drive and when I clicked on properties and security most of everything I needed to change permissions was great out. All of that has been fixed. and we had to format the drive but the stellar software has retrieved most if not all of my files but that passwords file is important.

 

[SgtScream]

Did you wipe the drive? If you didn't, have you tried to right click on the folder and go to properties and select previous versions tab?

 

[Steven_96]

Did you wipe the drive? If you didn't, have you tried to right click on the folder and go to properties and select previous versions tab?

Yes I think it was formatted in windows using disk part and the computer managment and reassigning the drive letter. but still I have accsess to the txt file because the stellar data recovery software found it again by doing a deep scan of the sectors of the drive. It's just that when I open the txt file all I get is garbled text if you will as I showed you in the screenshot that I sent you. So I'm wondering if the txt file can be repaired? by some repair software anything.

 

[USAFRet]

That .txt file is simply a byproduct of the data recovery application.

A corrupt or formatted or deleted bunch or files or partition.
The magical data recovery application finds some of it.
Reconstitutes them into "files", with a .txt extension.

Recovery of the blocks of data does not automagically mean reconstitution into the original file format.

[strike]Your file depicted above was a mp3 music file. It recovered some of it, and labeled it as a .txt or whatever.
Can't be read as an mp3 anymore.[/strike]
Actually, no....that was the index of a bunch of music files. Little River Band.

Whatever happened with the original drive...that data is corrupted. Dead and gone.

 

[Steven_96]

well The stellar software even after formatting it it has found all these files and I have been able to use them all because I have so these files can't be corrupted if I'm able to use them. but if this file was an mp3 file then maybe I have the wrong file in question I will have to check

 

[USAFRet]

well The stellar software even after formatting it it has found all these files and I have been able to use them all because I have so these files can't be corrupted if I'm able to use them. but if this file was an mp3 file then maybe I have the wrong file in question I will have to check

I corrected myself above...it does not appear to be an actual mp3, but rather an index of mp3 files.
In any case....not usable by it's owning application.

 

[Steven_96]

well The stellar software even after formatting it it has found all these files and I have been able to use them all because I have so these files can't be corrupted if I'm able to use them. but if this file was an mp3 file then maybe I have the wrong file in question I will have to check

I corrected myself above...it does not appear to be an actual mp3, but rather an index of mp3 files.
In any case....not usable by it's owning application.

Yeah so it is the wrong file. It has the same title but wrong file. So I will keep looking for it within the data recovery software there is lots to sift through.