For AutoCAD, hover over the down arrow to scroll to the bottom of the menu. For AutoCAD LT, enter DRAWINGRECOVERY at the Command prompt. From the Drawing Recovery Manager, you can preview and open each drawing or backup file to choose which one should be saved as the recovered DWG file....
Repair the drawing file (seeHow to repair corrupt AutoCAD files). Data corruption within a drawing could be causing AutoCAD to crash. Reconcile all layers, or set the LAYERNOTIFY system variable to 0 (zero) (seeHow to turn off the unreconciled l...