Monday, November 24, 2008

How To Undelete A Deleted File

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 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!

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 bad news is that the more you do on your computer, the higher the risk that Windows will overwrite some or all of the lost file, which will make recovering it expensive or maybe not even possible.

So you need to stop what you're doing on your computer. That means stop everything. Including browsing the internet, scanning your iTunes library, 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 it to download a program like this one to undelete files. If you haven't got the use of a second PC then it's possible that you'll be OK using your only computer (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 following the simple prompts on screen and there's a very high chance your file will be recovered for you.

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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