Why does the text in a text document consist of hieroglyphs?

Question

Data recovery

Hello, it so happened that I reinstalled Windows due to the fact that the BIOS did not see the disk. I lost all my files, but I only needed to recover a text document with the necessary information.

After the file recovery program finished its work, I noticed that text documents in English were saved correctly, and those that I needed were written in Russian (and there were mails in English) and consisted of hieroglyphs or some symbols .

I tried so many ways, but nothing comes out((( Help me...

Answer 1

I reinstalled Windows because the BIOS did not see the disk

This already sounds weird. If the disk is not well, and it is not visible even in the BIOS, then the operating system is unlikely to help, you need to figure out what is wrong with the disk. And if there is something important on it, and you doubt your capabilities, then it’s better not to touch it at all, and take it to a professional data recovery company for diagnostics. In normal firms, diagnostics are free. You can simply find out the status of the disk and then pick it up.
As a self test, you can plug the drive into a running Windows machine and see what diagnostic output R.tester returns .

Lost all my files

It turns out that you installed a new Windows directly on top of the old one? Without copying the necessary files somewhere else before that?
And what are you doing now? Are you using a computer with an OS installed on the same drive as your lost files? If yes, then you need to stop as soon as possible. More and more of the data you need is being overwritten in the process.

those that I needed were written in Russian (and there were mails in English) everything consists of hieroglyphs or some symbols

Most likely, the file you need is overwritten. And the program that you used found pieces of the old file table and pulls out what is now in those sectors where the file used to be. There is already new data or garbage.
The correct option would be: turn off the computer, remove the disk. Connect it to another Windows computer and download R.saver , a free file recovery software. Download to the disk of that computer, not to yours. Nothing can be written to yours right now.
Do a full scan, see in what form the file you need will be.
If it is broken again, save everything that R.saver finds, including the results of RAW recovery (raw, by signatures). Save to another drive, not yours.
First, manually examine the found text files (especially those without a "normal" name), there may be one of the old versions of your file, or even itself.
If not, then take a program that can search through the contents of files and do such a search in general for all recovery results.
Look for some unique keyword that was definitely in the right file. If you remember a few of these words, do a few searches. Maybe a piece of your file was glued to some other file recovered using RAW recovery.