Hard Drive Crashed- Can't find .odt files in recovery

[kelseysnell]

Long story short I accidentally erased all of the docs on my hard drive. I bought recovery software and have recovered everything but my open office files. I've found .xml registries that list the files I need but not the files themselves.

Any suggestions or help would be so very much appreciated. I'm a student, its finals and I'm kind of about to panic

Thank you so much

[RoryOF]

Might it have recovered the files but named them of type .zip? OOo files are files of type .zip, renamed to .odt or similar according to which OOo application opened them.

[Hagar Delest]

You can also try PhotoRec (can retrieve much more than photos). I've used it successfully few months ago on my GNU/Linux system.

Good luck.

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[kelseysnell]

Thanks guys for your responses. I tried to rename the .zip files to .odt and I'm still getting nothing. Is there any other option?

[Hagar Delest]

Have you tried PhotoRec?

BTW: it works fine as soon as the files are on a separate partition (it saved me once). If the files are on a partition still in use, the more you use that partition, the less you'll be able to recover anything.