How To Recover Deleted Files
If you’ve just accidentally pressed “delete” and deleted a file on your PC, your first port of call should be to go to the Recycle Bin. If you deleted the file from the “right” place, there’s a reasonable probability that your file will be showing there , waiting for you to click “restore”.
But what can you do if the file doesn’t show up in your recycle bin? Does that mean that it’s been lost forever? It’s almost never unimportant, backed-up files that get deleted by accident. Grrrr!
Forunately it’s almost always, it’s perfectly possible to get back a deleted file. Even if your recycle bin thinks otherwise. This is because the Windows filing system doesn’t delete the file but rather it flags the space occupied as something it can use again when it needs to.
The problem is that this won’t last forever and the more “stuff” you do on your PC, the bigger the risk that Windows will re-use part or all of that files’ space, which will make recovering it expensive or maybe not even possible.
So you need to stop what you’re doing on your computer. That really does mean stop, not just slow down. Including web browsing, looking through your music files, and so on. The more time you take to stop, the bigger the probability Windows will think it can re-use the space you’ve created by deleting the file.
If you can use a different PC, use it to download a program like this one to undelete files. If you can’t get hold of a different computer then you may get away with using your current PC (the chance increases if there is a large amount of disk space left unused) but this is definitely not the best way.
Once you’ve got your copy of a program to undelete files, it’s just a matter of following the simple prompts on screen and there’s an exceptionally big probability that the software will recover the file you accidentally deleted.
You can download a file undelete program here. It’s even got a free trial, so you’ll know that it works for you.
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