I need help rescuing my report from Notepad

Question

I was working on a very important report and all of a sudden it said error and then some messages and I clicked Yes and then my report is not in the memory stick anymore. I found a rescued document but I can't read it. It's all ? with some words. Help!!!

Answer 1

I cant help you save your file but I can suggest if you are working on something important like that to use a decent tool like abiword or ooo writer, (both are free), either of which will make regular backups of your work automatically so if something like this goes wrong you can salvage it.

sorry i cant be more helpful.

Answer 2

I don't think it is possible to rescue any documents from notepad, you should use microsoft word for word processing, it saves your document every 5 minutes.  

Answer 3

Next time, don't create and save documents on a memory stick.

Create the document on your laptop then when you have finished with the document, you can copy it to the memory stick.

Every time you update the document you then copy the updated version onto memory stick.

Microsoft Word will detect if it crash in a previous session and allow you to save a 'recovered' document.