Mono corrupted D files

[Etienne Cimon via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-09-03 17:13, AsmMan wrote:
> Something very strange happened 2/3 days ago. Two of my D files of the
> project I was working on got all values replaced by 0 (that's what I
> seen rather D code if I open the file with a hex debugger). The file
> size of both files keep intact although. And no, I have no backup of
> these files. I had a old copy of it on a external hard drive but I
> needed to format it to use in something else and didn't put my files
> before it...

http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/01/file-recovery-sector-editor-find-lost-data/

If you remember an exact string from the document and some bytes are 
still floating around somewhere on the drive, this method will find it