Recovering data from corrupt Excel file saved on USB on Windows/Mac!

Published by Jacob Martin on May 21, 2014

Microsoft Excel is one of the most popular spreadsheet applications that are developed by Microsoft which is used by the entire world for calculation, graphics tools, listing, tabulate data and many more. This spreadsheet application is used for storing, manipulating and organizing data. Excel spreadsheet are the most used to store financial data. One can include the information that is gathered in an excel file into electronic presentation, web pages or printed reports. All these files however may get corrupt in many cases which include unexpected system shutdown, application malfunction, software issues an also corrupt your MS Excel file and you will be unable to open your file or due to human errors. No matter whatever the reason may be for corruption, it leads to inaccessibility of data stored in it. Data loss is inevitable when your excel file gets corrupted. However you can restore all the lost information if you have a proper updated backup with you.  If you don’t have any backup, then you to choose for a third party tool do that it can repair the corrupt excel file.  You can take an example; you are working on tax file that is stored on USB from past few days and one day when you open it to insert new data, you will get the following error message that is mentioned below:

“Filename.xls cannot be opened. The file may be read only, or you may be trying to access a read only location. Or, the server the file is located on may not be responding.”

When such type of error occurs, you are unable to access the content of the tax file and also you cannot insert new data. Even when you try and copy the file to your computer, then you can get another error message which may be like this that is mentioned below:

“Cannot copy Filename.xls. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.”

Causes:

This type of error could surface in any of the following situations:

You don’t have permission to write data onto the Excel file

Your excel file is corrupt (excel file could have got corrupted if your USB is infected with virus)

Resolution

In order to repair excel file, you can observe the below mentioned steps:

• Modify the permissions when the file is marked as read only
• When the file gets corrupt or gets damaged, then consider the below steps:
• Microsoft excel provides automatic recovery for a corrupted file by trying to reopen and repair the file. If it does not do in certain case, then you can repair excel file manually. Open file menu, hit on open and then choose the file that you want to open and hit on the arrow to open button, hit repair and then choose the method that you wish to recover spreadsheet.

If all the above steps still fail to recover lost data then you need to use excel repair software. When you excel file gets corrupt than it becomes very irritating situation as all excel file becomes inaccessible and repair is the only option to restore your data. Therefore you should use MS Excel Repair Tool that is especially designed to recover and repair the corrupted file or inaccessible file. This repair tool can easily recovers deleted excel spreadsheet along with the important things like charts, images, hyperlinks and indentation. This powerful recovery tool even rebuilds XLS, XLSX or some other format.

Steps to Recovering data from corrupt Excel file saved on USB:

Step 1: Download the recovery software and after that hit on “OK” button to start the process.

Step 2: To recover the corrupt file, hit on “Select file” button. BY using the “Look in” you can search from particular logical drive.

Step 3: Select the corrupt file from the search list with the help of check box. After that hit on “Select all” and hit on “Start” button to begin the scanning process.

Step 4: As soon as the scanning process completes, you can view your corrupt files.

Step 5: At last, hit on the “Start repair” button to begin the repairing process. Select the perfect location to save your repaired excel file and after that hit on “OK” button.

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