Win10 crashed and mangled a .rtf that I REALLY need back

[Dimitri001]

Oh, you're saying manually piece it together like a puzzle by copy pasting? I thought you meant take the hex code to generate a new file from the code.

Well, I've found a large chunk of the file, but it's not all of it and I can't find the rest and what's there is too jumbled with chunks missing. And I don't get why that is, because the normal .rtf file was normal unjumbled text. I guess it got damaged in the crash.

UPDATE: THe weird thing is, when I open the drive in the hex editor and search for strings of texts that exist in files on my HDD, unaffected, normal files, I can't find them.