How to recover Excel spreadsheets with Magic Excel Recovery

With Magic Excel Recovery, recovering Excel files and spreadsheets in OpenOffice ODS format is easy! This practical guide will help you learn how to use Magic Excel Recovery to recover Excel documents step by step.

Quick Scan:

The Easiest Way

This mode will help you instantly recover recently deleted Excel files.

Quick scan mode is lightning fast! However, quick scan relies on information collected from the file system, so this method will not help if you are scanning a formatted hard drive, overwritten, or inaccessible media.

Comprehensive Analysis: Content-Aware Recovery

Magic Excel Recovery will help even with the most difficult situations, such as disk corruption, working with inaccessible and formatted storage devices. It does this with Content-Aware Recovery, an innovative data recovery algorithm that is automatically activated when a full analysis is selected. When using the Content-Aware mechanism, Magic Excel Recovery reads the entire disk in low-level mode to find patterns specific to Excel documents. If such patterns are found, Magic Excel Recovery will try to determine the physical location of the file on the disk and will take additional measures to ensure complete recovery of the file.

Table Recovery Wizard

The first thing you will see when you launch Magic Excel Recovery is a step-by-step recovery wizard. This wizard will guide you through the entire recovery process, ensuring that you can get your files back quickly and easily. You can use Magic Excel Recovery to recover Excel files from various media, including formatted, damaged, and inaccessible devices.

There are two data recovery modes: "Quick Scan" and "Full Analysis". Depending on your needs and the condition of your storage device, you can choose between a quick recovery method or a thorough scan.

Integrity check and 100% recovery guarantee

Before adding a file to the thumbnail gallery, Magic Excel Recovery performs a thorough check of its integrity. If the file is corrupted and overwritten with other data, it will be unusable. However, many partially overwritten documents may be found on your hard drive. Adding all of them to the gallery will only clutter up the list and make it harder to find the right file. For this reason, Excel files that fail the integrity check will not be displayed. Thus, the program guarantees 100% recovery: any document included in the preview list can actually be recovered

Step by Step Guide to Repair Excel Spreadsheets

First, select the hard drive from which Excel files will be recovered. If the drive is available, also select the logical drive (partition) where the required files are stored. However, if you're dealing with a corrupted, repartitioned, or inaccessible device, make sure the physical hard drive is selected and not one of its partitions.

Select the scan mode: "Quick Scan" or "Full Analysis". The differences between the two modes have been outlined above. However, it always makes sense to start by choosing a quick scan, because in this mode the program works so fast that you won't waste time even if it doesn't produce results.

On the other hand, running in full analysis mode can be very slow, depending on the size of the disk and the amount of data it contains.

Use full analysis only if you are working with a corrupted, deleted, or formatted drive, or if the files you were looking for during the quick scan failed to recover.

Magic Excel Recovery will search for recoverable tables. Once the scan is complete, the tool will display the found files as gallery thumbnails containing preview images of recoverable files. You can click on any picture to open a full-size preview.

Finally, you will be asked to specify a location to save the restored tables. Make sure you choose a different disk partition or storage device - do not use the media you are recovering from to save the recovered files. Otherwise, you risk overwriting the original deleted files