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Bok Miklas
$BadClus is a system file so will be of no use in recovery. I believe it was used to hold bad cluster remapping before all that was done at the disk controller level. My few remaining memory cells say that it might be a sparse file, so the 447gb size might not represent actual space used or content.
None of us work for Piriform by the way, or are experts at data recovery or damaged drive repair. We're just members like yourself, but if we can help at all with what experience or knowledge we have, we will. The obstacle to get around if possible is that $Badclus file.
Windows has written and replaced 3,600+ files so far today in six hours of use on my PC, and probably thousands on yours; it is very disk-intensive. Therefore, please abstain from using your PC for anything until you do these recovery steps.
a) Download the Testdisk software file for your OS.
b) Extract its files to a directory on a drive (an external USB attached drive is recommended) which was NOT used to save the desired Word file.
c) Read the README file.
d) Launch Photorec.
e) Specify recovery from the source drive where the file was.
f) Specify recovery to a destination drive (so it is not overwriting any clusters which might contain your data).
g) Start the recovery scan.
h) When scan completes, open the destination directory. A file name will have been randomly assigned by Photorec but the extension will match what you're looking for.
i) Open each of the recovered Word files which match the size (plus/minus 5%) of the file in question. Check to see what they contain. Delete them if not what you want.
You can recovering those deleted temporary files, you can recover the old version, using a file recovery software like Recuva. The last version of the last saved file is usually called somthing like WRL0001.tmp (the meta information like date etc. will be still intact). Older versions and last versions from files saved before the last one will also have temp files that can be recoverd, but they won't contain the meta data any more, but they will keep their fileextention. When you recover those files the recovery software will usually assign a number, so it might look like this [000001].docx.
the recovery search is at 3mio atm out of 1.9bil. (and i just gave the gdevelop project directory as searchlocation lol)
will not work i assume, since i never deleted anything and last windowsbackup is a week old. but a try wont hurt much