To see if your version of Windows 7 is set to do auto defrags, check this link: Maybe your experience can serve as one 'possible' example of why auto defrags without doing a backup first, is not such a good idea. Have had some discussion in the past with folks who thought letting windows do auto defrags was the cat's meow. I always do a backup before I manually initiate any defrag. This is why I NEVER allow windows to do auto defrags. Now, regarding SmartDefrag having possibly caused the problem.

In a subsequent post, you said that you managed to restore a backup that wasn't too old and are managing a recovery, so good for you for having done backups! The only explanation I can think of for the cause of this problem was my running a program called SmartDefrag a few days ago. Luckily my backup was on 15th June but the entries since then were important so I am very keen to try to recover them. I am sure I have not deleted them and there's nothing in the recycle bin. To my dismay today I have just found that at least the last ten pages of my document are inexplicably missing.

Using Word 2000 I keep a diary and back it up occasionally. doc file or delete it's backup file in the interim). wbk files and experiment with the copies (don't do anything that will resave that. Just use the first download link under Windows on this page (and you don't need to download anything else for English for it to work). It's free, and it can read and write to MS Word files (including newer formats than what you're using with Word 2000). I'd use the Go-oo version (which has some additional enhancements over the standard version). You can have both MS Office and installed at the same time on your PC. I'd also see if something like the free can open it, in case it's corrupted in an odd way with an end of file marker somewhere their shouldn't be one and it handles it differently. doc file and open it.Īlso, have you tried opening it with a different program?

wbk files and copy them to another folder somewhere for safe keeping (along with your current doc file). Then, each time you save the document, the existing wbk file is deleted, your. wbk extension by default (use Windows Explorer to look in the same folder as your. It's my understanding that Word 2000 makes backup files with a. Then, copy the backup file (.wbk) and the doc file somewhere else for safe keeping so that you don't accidentally cause the problem to get worse by resaving it (losing any automatically created backup file, saving it without the pages you're missing if it's corrupt in some way, etc.). As a first step, I'd see if you've got any automatically created backup files.

My word document disappeared