Tuesday, September 30, 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 good chance that your file will be sitting there and you can just right click your mouse and select "Restore".

But what can you do if the file doesn't show up in your recycle bin? Does that mean that it's been lost forever? It's almost never unimportant, backed-up files that get deleted by accident. Grrrr!

Forunately it's almost always, it's possible to retrieve a file from oblivion. Even if your recycle bin thinks otherwise. That's because Windows just marks the space the file used as being available for re-use.

The problem is that the more you do on your computer, the higher 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 means stop everything. Including browsing the internet, scanning your iTunes library, whatever. The more things you do, 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 it to download a program like this one to undelete files. 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 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, you can be 100% sure it will work for you.

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