How view damaged dwg file of autocad?

[annakorifal701756]

Recently recovered thousands of DWG files on a hard drive with a corrupt partition, however, all the files recovered are not viewable or recoverable through autocad 2007. They files are 2004 dwg files. How to view damaged dwg file of autocad?

[Tom Beauford]

AutoCAD offers a variety of free viewers, not sure if they will fair better but worth a try.
http://www.autodesk.com/viewers/all-viewers

[cadtag]

you can also try an alternative CAD package, DoubleCAD, Draftsight, BricsCAD, or one of the Intellicad viewers. Often they are less picky about problems than Acad