How To Undelete An Accidentally Deleted File

November 22, 2008 · Filed Under Data Recovery

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? Is the file lost permanently? Murphy’s Law says that files deleted by accident are usually ones that you haven’t got a backup of. What a pain!

Forunately it’s 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 the more you do on your computer, the bigger 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, whatever. The more time you take to stop, the bigger the probability Windows decide that the space previously occupied by the file is space it can use elsewhere.

If you can use a different PC, use that to download a file undelete utility like this one. If you can’t get hold of a different computer then you may get away with using your current PC (especially if you’ve got a fair amount of free disk space) but this is definitely not the best way.

Once you’ve downloaded a file undelete software program, it’s just a matter of pressing “next” most of the time 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, you can be 100% sure it will work for you.

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