Hard drives are used to store files, to create and modify files and also to store music, videos and audio files. You might also lose files from hard dive due to various reasons like accidental deletion of files, unintentional deletion of drives or partitions, formatting drive or partition, file corruption due to virus, file system corruption, and power fluctuations. This makes your stored files inaccessible from the drive. If you delete a file using Delete command it won’t gets deleted completely from the drive only the pointers to the file gets deleted from the file directory. But still those files are available on the hard drive where as you cannot access those files from hard drive. However still you can recover those deleted files until it gets overwritten by new files.
If you delete a file using Shift+Delete keys it gets deleted bypassing the recycle bin. In such cases if you want to recover deleted files from recycle bin use any good undelete software to recover deleted files. If you are a Mac user facing similar data loss situations then you need to use good Mac file recovery utility to undelete Mac files from HFS and HFS+ file systems.
How to recover deleted files?
Select a good file recovery application check whether the application can recover different files types from different data loss conditions. Check the utility allows you to preview the recovered files before saving. Preview option helps to identify files easily and make deleted file recovery easier. Download the demo version of the software to check the capability of software.
- Remove the hard drive from which you need to restore deleted files
- Attach this hard drive to a working computer as a secondary hard drive
- Install the file recover utility on the working computer.
- Run the application to retrieve deleted files
- Save the recovered files to the computer