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Recently I often edited a txt file with Notepad++ on Windows XP and gedit on Linux (Mint). During shutdown on windows, it seems, that file was corrupted. This is the second time that this happens and both corrupted files now start with INDX(.

Unfortunately I made a backup (with rsync) this morning, which also copied the corrupted file.

Perhaps this also could have anything to do with problems on the hard disk, but its more unlikely, because I checked it already with different tools on both hard disks.. (chkdsk, smart)

This is the start of the file-content: (if you need everything, please ask me)

INDX(                    (       è      U Ì                   ©c     h T     òã     ¼µ
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Stop writing data to the hard drive or you'll decrease the chance to recover anything...

First try How do I recover lost/inaccessible data from my storage device?

If that doesn't help, WinHEX (paid) has a pretty good forensics mode.

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