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 good chance that your file will be sitting there and you can just right click your mouse and select “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. What a pain!

The good news is that almost always, it’s perfectly possible to get back a deleted file. Even if it’s not shown in your recycle bin. That’s because Windows just marks the space the file used as being available for re-use.

The bad news is that the more you do on your computer, the higher the chance that Windows will overwrite some or all of the lost file, making recovery difficult or even impossible.

So you need to stop what you’re doing on your computer. That means stop everything. Including browsing the internet, looking through your music files, and so on. The more time you take to stop, the higher the chance that Windows decide that the space previously occupied by the file is space it can use elsewhere.

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 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 pressing “next” most of the time and there’s an exceptionally big probability that the software will recover the file you accidentally deleted.

Get your file undelete software here now. It’s even got a free trial, so you’ll know that it works for you.

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