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. 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? Is the file lost permanently? It's almost never unimportant, backed-up files that get deleted by accident. 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 bad news is that this won't last forever and the more "stuff" you do on your PC, 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 stop whatever you are 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 decide that the space previously occupied by the file is space it can use elsewhere.

If you've got access to another computer, 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 (the chance increases if there is a large amount of disk space left unused) but this is definitely not the best way.

Once you've downloaded a file undelete software program, it's just a matter of pressing "next" most of the time and there's a very high chance your file will be recovered for you.

You can download a file undelete program here. There's even a free trial, you can be 100% sure it will work for you.