Lost important files.. two times

Please help me, I lost two times an important file I had made in pages with my iPad. The problem is that each time I open the file the application crushes and there is no possibility to open/modify/send/download with icloud the file...
I've already called Apple for support but they seems unable to give me the solution for my issue.
Please I need your help, that file is very important...
Operations already tried:
- close all the apps
- hard reset
- backup with icloud
- download via icloud panel with my pc
- shut down and restart
- delete and re-install pages
Thank you...

fukawi2 wrote:
If you've run recovery over the drives already and they've recovered some files, I'd be guessing anything no recovered isn't likely to be recovered.
Since all the working drives have since had significant amounts of data written over the data you want to recover, I'd be guessing it's well and truly gone.
Short of sending the damaged drive to recovery specialists who can physically rebuild / repair the broken parts within the drive, I'd say those files are gone forever
Even sending it to the professionals is no gurantee -- if the platter itself has been scratched/damaged, then there's nothing anyone can do.
The hard drive that is now ext3 should not have had the data written over yet. It used to have XP on it, so it should just be the XP files written over, hopefully. Can I still recover data from when the partitoin was ntfs now that it is ext3?
The recovery tool has only gone over my external drive.
I'll try system rescue CD.
Last edited by Raccoon1400 (2009-01-16 12:09:51)

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