How To Undelete A Deleted File

Your first reaction if you've just accidentally deleted a file on your computer is probably to go to the recycle bin. Depending on where you deleted the file from, there's a good chance that your file will be sitting there , waiting for you to click "restore".

But what can you do if the file doesn't show up in your recycle bin? 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!

The good news is that almost always, it's perfectly possible to get back a deleted file. 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 bigger 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 stop whatever you are doing on your computer. That means stop everything. Including web browsing, scanning your iTunes library, 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 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 (especially if you've got a fair amount of free disk space) 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.

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.