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 reasonable probability that your file will be showing 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? Is the file lost permanently? It’s almost never unimportant, backed-up files that get deleted by accident. What a pain!
Forunately it’s almost always, it’s possible to retrieve a file from oblivion. Even if it’s not shown in your recycle bin. 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 risk that Windows will re-use part or all of that files’ space, which will make recovering it expensive or maybe not even possible.
So you need to stop what you’re doing on your computer. That really does mean stop, not just slow down. Including browsing the internet, looking through your music files, whatever. The more things you do, 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 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 got your copy of a program to undelete files, 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.
You can download a file undelete program here. It’s even got a free trial, you can be 100% sure it will work for you.