Excel problem

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Hi,
I am trying to access an Excel file on a disk but every time I try to do so
the excell page opens but the file is not opened and I get a message that the
file could be a read only or the server cannot be accessed. I have other
excell files on the same disk which I was able to access and the unaccessible
file is relatively small (148KB). I tried to copy disk or file but was unable
to do so.

IS there a way how I can access the data. Any help would be graetly
appreciated.
 
joe D said:
Hi,
I am trying to access an Excel file on a disk but every time I try to do so
the excell page opens but the file is not opened and I get a message that the
file could be a read only or the server cannot be accessed. I have other
excell files on the same disk which I was able to access and the unaccessible
file is relatively small (148KB). I tried to copy disk or file but was unable
to do so.

IS there a way how I can access the data. Any help would be graetly
appreciated.
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Several possibilities: file system is corrupt, file attributes are set
wrong, or
file contents are corrupt (like the header).

If you can copy the file to another media: floppy, second hard drive and
the copy goes ok, and you still can't get it into excel, then something is
probably wrong internally to the file. Can you pull other excel
spreadsheets
into Excel? If you copied the spreadsheet off of a cd that was read-only
then the file attribute is set to read-only. Go into properties of the file
and set it to read-write (uncheck the read only box).

hope this points you into the right direction,
charles.....
 
Copy the files from the disk to your hard drive first, then open them from
your hard drive

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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***** charles said:
Several possibilities: file system is corrupt, file attributes are set
wrong, or
file contents are corrupt (like the header).

If you can copy the file to another media: floppy, second hard drive and
the copy goes ok, and you still can't get it into excel, then something is
probably wrong internally to the file. Can you pull other excel
spreadsheets
into Excel? If you copied the spreadsheet off of a cd that was read-only
then the file attribute is set to read-only. Go into properties of the file
and set it to read-write (uncheck the read only box).

hope this points you into the right direction,
charles.....
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the read only button was unchecked; The file was the working copy; the fille
cannot be copied.>
 
Wesley Vogel said:
Copy the files from the disk to your hard drive first, then open them from
your hard drive
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I have already said that I couldn't copy the file neither to hard disk nor
to another disk.
 
joe D said:
I have already said that I couldn't copy the file neither to hard disk nor
to another disk.
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Then the file or disk is very possibly damaged or corrupt, and you should
use a disk/file recovery utility to recover the file.

The appropriate tool is probably influenced by the type of diskette.
Some examples are BadCopy Pro and R-Tools.

http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/
http://www.r-tt.com/

You should recover all other files from that disk and probably destroy it so
that it isn't accidentally used again, as it is apparently failing.

HTH
-pk

 
joe D said:
the read only button was unchecked; The file was the working copy; the fille
cannot be copied.
Click to expand...

If the file can not be copied, the file system is damaged in some way. I
don't
know how much of a hacker you are but one way you might be able to
retrieve it is to use a track/sector level editor and pull the file contents
sector by sector. Then when you get it reconstructed and the new file is
copyable make a backup and then use a bit level editor on the header to
fix it so Excel can import it. I had to do this once a LONG time ago. It
is like getting blood out of a rock but it can be done. You'll also have
to bone up on what a real Excel spreadsheet has to have in the header
part of the file so you can fix it. I hope the file did not have anything
in it
that was vital to your existance (like your dissertation data).

later,
charles.....
 
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