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Originally Posted by iinfi
another customer who had backed up everything on a non-rewritable CD but still had its contents alone with the ones on his HDD turned into boxes. the back up was take long b4 the files in the PC had been affected.
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...and you told him that they were unrecoverable? :O
Anyways, imho copy your documents on a CD/DVD and try to open them on a different system then yours. If they open there, then most probably just your Office installation has got screwed otherwise your files have been corrupted by the virus. If the files themselves are damaged then try to search on Google for microsoft office document recovery software. There are many and almost all of them provide demo software. Install them and see if any of them recover your docs. If any of them do, then you can buy its full version and use it to get your docs back.
A word of advice would be to back up your data on some non-rewritable media. Do it even now. May be your office installation has gone bad and every file you try to open with this install gets corrupted while the files originally were not bad. So write some CDs right now and then try what ever you need/want to.