Hi People

I have several documents scanned into my machine,just under 1gb's worth.

Here is my problem I am looking for a particular phrase (the phrase is "Brand Awareness") contained within the text of the DOCUMENT, the things is I can't remember if it is a Word or pdf. document.
I do remember when I saw that phrase I typed it into a word document ( just the two words ) now when I do a search all it throws up is this particular word document.

I can't even remember anything else in the document or even what the document was about, but I know realise that I should have saved this document in a special place.

I expect everybody to jump on me and shout what an idiot, yeah, yeah, OK I admit it.

What I am asking for does anybody know how I can extract this information from my HDD, before I go to B & Q and buy a BIG hammer ? First of all, the document, most likely using your documents folder for just one t user. That narrows it down. Try this:look at the my documents folder. you will see the search option. Ask it to look for all documents, sometime in the last year. The size is probably less than the megabyte. That then just the phrase you want. Just a single phrase. The built-in search features not very sophisticated. Expected to take quite a while to look through all your documents that were created in the past year of the size less than 1 MB and have that phrase found inside. It will do it, but it just takes a while.
Now than, this is the KIND of thing you don't to very often, so there's no point in investing in some expensive software to resolve just one issue. If you have another folder available somewhere or another storage device. You can late you can later copy all of the files found to another location outside of the my documents folder.
Then using the newly created folder. You can now search for other phrases you think would've been in the document. That should narrow it down to just a few.
Clumsy? YES. Does it work? Yes.
This is based on my personal experience and my distaste for writing a program to solve one little problem. Just use resources you have.
By the way, this was done multiplication speech recognition and please EXCUSE the some other grammatical errors. I just wanted to give you a quick answer. What while I can.