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My stupid computer was set to automatically restart every time there is an update, which I didn't know. But I assumed microsoft word would recover the documents I was working on, but it didn't. For some reason it only recovered the first page of one the two documents. AND Word was set to save every 10 minutes! so I lost about 5 days of important work. I downloaded a program called word recovery and about 800 documents were retrieved, but not one of them were the documents i was looking for, and some of them were like 8 years old. Then i downloaded PeretoLogic data recovery. I don't think it found the document either, but I don't know for sure since I need to buy the program to recover any documents it lists. So what should I do?? Are the documents gone forever? I already looked in the temp. folder and pretty much everywhere else. Why would it only save one page???? I could contact Microsoft, but their support costs $49 per call. If I knew I would get the documents back I would just call them, but if there's no guarantee I don't want to waste money. It's microsoft 2003 by the way, if that makes a difference. Any advice????