>One of our users has had a problem with an Excel file, and we are wondering how this might have happened. He was using a file that was stored on a floppy disk. An error message came up "disk full", so he immediately tried to save the file to the hard drive. Then a blue screen appeared saying "error occured at location... press any key to continue". The file was closed automatically. Excel remained open, but at a blank worksheet. When the user tried to get the original file back, it had been erased from the disk. It also did not appear on the hard drive anywhere. We haven't been able to retrieve any of the information from tmp files or anywhere else. The file has been able to be recreated from printouts, so that's not an issue. What we are curious to know is what could have caused this to happen. Any ideas out there?
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>Thanks for any light anybody can shed on this.
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>Kim Hughs
>IL Dept. of Revenue

try Undelete command in DOS.

I forget one of Norton product may recover deleted file from disk..

but, the important thing is:
Even the disk not full but bad sector..

Excel cannot read it in memory and save into harddisk..
Ask user stop edit A: document directly from application.

1. The risk is too high if disk full or bad sector.
2. Use too often flobby drive, the drive need clean freq.
3. flobby drive durability drop.

if question on security reason, better find a software for him/her.