Corrupt Files

I'm working on one of my friends computers that she does AD copy on using 
Corel Draw 10.

There was a transformer that blew next door to their office and it messed 
her hard drive up.   She paid another technician to retrieve all of her 
design files (sadly she had not been a good girl and didn't make backups).

All of the files are back on her hard drive now but corel draw will not open 
them and spits out a message saying they may be in the wrong format or 
corrupt..   I have tried opening them in Illustrator and they give the same 
corrupt message.

Is there any way to salvage these files?

Funk wrote:

> I'm working on one of my friends computers that she does AD copy on using 
> Corel Draw 10.
> 
> There was a transformer that blew next door to their office and it messed 
> her hard drive up.   She paid another technician to retrieve all of her 
> design files (sadly she had not been a good girl and didn't make backups).
> 
> All of the files are back on her hard drive now but corel draw will not
open 
> them and spits out a message saying they may be in the wrong format or 
> corrupt..   I have tried opening them in Illustrator and they give the same

> corrupt message.
> 
> Is there any way to salvage these files?
> 

If they were "retrieved" back to the original drive, it's unlikely, 
since the bad sections have probably been overwritten. If the original 
bad drive is still available, there are companies such as OnTrack 
whose business it is to recover data from crashed drives (as long as 
nobody's taken a sledgehammer to the disks).