I have an old dying hard drive which I could not recover files from using TestDisk, so I instead used PhotoRec to scan the HDD to recover whatever files I can.
I ended up with a lot of Word documents (.doc files) that seem to be corrupted. When I open them, I get the following window:
Is there some way I can scan the directory of Word documents so I end up with only the valid (non-corrupted) Word documents? This will save me from opening and checking each document individually.
UPDATE:
The first 32 bytes of data in each of these .doc files was the same ...
D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3E 00 03 00 FE FF 09 00
The file signature, D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1
, tells me that these are Microsoft Office documents. I tried to open one of the files with the following extensions: DOC, DOT, PPS, PPT, XLA, XLS, WIZ. In every case, an error was produced.
trid.exe
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