Some times Microsoft office excel files get damaged. MS Excel stops responding while opening damaged excel files.

But don’t lose hope as you can try some methods given below to recover your data from your excel.

Method 1:

Open the recovered copy of the excel file.

1. Open Start >> All programs >> Microsoft Office >> Microsoft Office Tools and click “Microsoft Office Application Recovery”

2. In application list click Microsoft Excel , click recover application.

Note: Don’t click End Application, otherwise recent changes to your workbook will be lost.

3. Open Microsoft Excel , the excel workbook you want to recover will be listed Document Recovery task pane.

4. To open or save your workbook, click the arrow on the right of the workbook in the task pane.

Method 2:

Use “Open and Repair” command

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Trouble:

One of our readers reported that when he starts his computer, he gets a message like “Verifying DMI pool, Booting from CD and then there is an error like Non-System Disk or Disk error Replace and press any key when ready”

One of the messages shown in this type of problem is given in the image above some other messages are like DISK BOOT FAILURE, NTLDR is missing etc.

There can be several reasons for this kind of error, like :

• Non-bootable floppy or CD present in drive
• Corrupt boot-loader
• Faulty Hard disk drive

Let us see the fix for each of these.

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Trouble:

One of our readers Vimal reported us a problem saying: “windows not genuine , this comes when I start my Windows XP“.

This is one of the most common problem which is faced by lot of windows users these days as they don’t have the legit copy of windows XP.

This message as shown in the image above appears every time the user logged in windows, with a timer of some seconds before the Resolve Later button got enabled, all this delayed the entire windows logon process.

Let’s see how can we resolve this issue

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Trouble:

I have been using my portable hard disk drive for more than an year now. Its a laptop hard-disk of 2.5 inches, 80GB capacity with a USB 2.0 casing. By now the drive has become nearly full, there is little free space.

Three days back, I got a warning saying

“Windows delayed write failed -  Windows was unable to save all the data for the file M:\$Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this data elsewhere.”

For a moment I thought that disk is going faulty, but with some hit and trial, I got it fixed.

Let me share the solution with you.

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Trouble:

One of our readers Jaime reported a problem regarding the windows update, he says

“How do I delete already downloaded but not yet installed Windows update file?”

As stated in the statement above user has downloaded windows update files through windows update but because of some reason he does not want to install those windows update. But windows automatic update service keeps trying to install the update.

Let’s see how can we delete the downloaded windows update files

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