How To Get Back Deleted Files And Folders From Windows

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“Oh，no… I didn’t mean to delete the file” It happens to everyone in our daily life. Stray mouse click “Delete” or just mistakenly finger something wrong, a conference report you just spend hours creating is gone. Isn’t it frustrated?

From Recycle Bin
First, don’t panic. Check out your Recycle Bin. When a file or folder is deleted from your computer, it is not really deleted permanently. It is removed to the recycle bin. Double-click on the Recycle Bin icon, in the window, find out your deleted file and click “Restore this item” on the menu bar. The file will be restored to its previous location.
If you emptied the Recycle Bin or used Shift+Delete to erase the file, the above trick will not work. Yet it also can be recoverable for file and folder are still not really deleted, you just lose the entry in my computer. The content still exists on the hard disk and the space can be available by other files though. If the space isn’t occupied by other files, you can get back files and folders.

From ...
... backup
Once lose file and folder, you had better not write new file. Try to recover your erased files and folders as soon as possible for it has less chance to retrieve them as time goes on. If you made a backup copy of all your data before deleting a file, maybe you can recover the file from it. Use the function of your backup program to locate and restore a specific file and folder. Windows 7 allows you to recover file and folder with Windows 7 Backup and Restore. Here is the procedure:
1．Click the Start button, select Control Panel, then System and Maintenance, and finally Backup and Restore.
2．Click “Restore my files” and follow the steps provided in the wizard to specify which file and folder to recover.

Use File and folder recovery tool
If the above methods failed, you might still be able to retrieve deleted files and folders using a third party data recovery program like Card Data Recovery. It uses a file and folder signature search algorithm to help you scan the whole hard disk. Small files stored in one cluster or larger files stored in consecutive clusters will be found immediately and recovered quickly. You can preview pictures and audio before recovery. Nevertheless, the pretend is files and folders were not overwritten, or else there is no way to get them back.

Note: You must never save the recovered files and folders to the same disk where previous ones located. That is because the space where the data you hope to recover taken might be get written.