How to retrieve a deleted file?

IMPORTANT. Try to use that computor as little as possible, ideally shut it down and get the downloads on a friend’s computor. As danbob noted, your computor might overwrite what you want back, then it would take the NSA to recover it.

Good Luck.

This sometimes works. If you have Windows, go to Start, click on search, adn then pick what kind of file it was (Music, program, picture…) Type what the name was, and it will look. This does’nt work all the time.

Go do downloads.com and search for a fre undelete programs. It may work. Try a few different ones.

Unless you really know what you are doing and have all the right program tools (advanced level stuff really), then you can’t. Once its gone from the recycle bin, as far as the computer is concerned it is gone forever.

In reality, there is a good chance that it is still on your hard drive, but your computer has no way of getting it back by itself. This is because it is quicker for the computer to mark the sectors where the file information is as “empty” rather than actually erasing whats in the sector. So that information will actually stay there until the computer needs the “empty” sector to store new files in, at which point it will overwrite them.

If the file is super super important, and isn’t something that you can re-type up or download from the internet, then you might want to consider taking your computer to a document recovery place, but it will cost. I really don’t suggest trying to download the tools to recover the document unless you have a high level of understanding about computers and how hard drives work.