How To Undelete 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 if you didn’t delete the file in such a way that it shows in your recycle bin, what next? Does that mean that it’s been lost forever? It’s almost never unimportant, backed-up files that get deleted by accident. Grrrr!
The good news is that almost always, it’s possible to retrieve a file from oblivion. 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, making recovery difficult or even impossible.
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, whatever. 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’ve got access to another computer, use that to download a file undelete utility like this one. If you haven’t got the use of a second PC 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 only do this as a last resort.
Once you’ve downloaded a file undelete software program, it’s just a matter of pressing “next” most of the time 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.