I formatted an NTFS drive (and re-installed windows) which had some important .doc and .xls files, I used 2 recovery software and both recovered my files but seem to be corrupt, when opened they appear as symbols something like this
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I tried opening them using Open Office it showed me a character set option, and I tried all the character sets the symbols change but no text appears, I also tried an excel repair software which didn't help at all but showed OLE header corrupt.
So is there a chance to get back the data inside these files ?
