How To Undelete Deleted Files
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 reasonable probability that your file will be showing there , waiting for you to click “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!
The good news is that almost always, it’s perfectly possible to get back a deleted file. Even if it’s not shown in your recycle bin. That’s because Windows just marks the space the file used as being available for re-use.
The problem is that this won’t last forever and the more “stuff” you do on your PC, the higher the chance that Windows will overwrite some or all of the lost file, 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 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’ve got access to another computer, use that to download a file undelete utility like this one. If you haven’t got the use of a second PC then it’s possible that you’ll be OK using your only computer (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 following the simple prompts on screen and there’s an exceptionally big probability that the software will recover the file you accidentally deleted.
You can download a file undelete program here. There’s even a free trial, you can be 100% sure it will work for you.