How to Recover an ASD File. A file with the file extension of ".ASD" is an automatically-saved backup file for a Microsoft Word 2002 or 2003 document.

How to Restore an Overwritten Word File. If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a ...

There's a cool trick that can help you retrieve lost and unsaved Word documents by searching for .asd in the File Explorer under My/This PC.

Weblog Hack College lists 10 ways you may be able to recover an accidentally deleted Word document, including searching your hard drive for Word's AutoRecover backup file: ...