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Recover deleted files off windows 7 windows 8

Have you ever deleted files off windows 7 or windows 8? We may delete data off computer hard disk drive by error or by intention sometimes. What if those deleted contents are useful or valuable? Can we read them at the second time? As a matter of fact, we do not need to worry, because there is a way to get them back from the hard drive. Do you know what the possible way is? Actually, we can try to retrieve deleted information from the hard disk drive with the help of data recovery program.

Case of deleting information off windows 7 accidentally

My computer runs windows and there are 4 drives to store files: drive C, drive D, drive E, and drive F. I deleted all files and folders saved on the drive E at the previous time. What should I do? Some of those files which were deleted are meaningful and important for me, and I can not lose them. I have thought that I could see them in the recycle bin, but unfortunately, it was emptied when I checked the recycle bin. Is there any way for me to retrieve the deleted data which saved on the computer hard disk previously? -Bert from Washington

How to recover deleted files from windows 7 r windows 8 with data recovery software

Data recovery software may help us get the deleted files from the hard disk drive safely, because the feature of read-only. So we do not need to worry about data leakage. What's more, we just need five steps to retrieve the deleted data to view them. Here are the steps as follows to teach us how to perform:

Recover deleted files from windows 7 / windows 8

Preparation: You can download and install the data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can run the software and choose a recovery module after entering the main interface of the software.

1Download the data recovery software and launch it on the computer runs windows 7 or windows 8.
2Double click the data restoration program to start it on the computer.
3Select the recovery model and target disk drive to scan.
4We can preview the contents after the scan if they are photo files or the similar, so pick up the files needed to recover.

Attention should be paid when restore deleted data

There is not one hundred percent guarantee to get the deleted files back from the hard disk drive on the computer which runs windows 7 or windows 8 with the help of data recovery tool. What we can do to grasp the largest chance to perform deleted files recovery successfully is to not do things wrong to the aim hard disk drive whose data is deleted accidentally or intentionally. As a matter of fact, there are some things we need to pay attention to when restore deleted information from the hard disk drive or after deleting data off hard disk drive. Here are some of them below:

1. Do not store new data on the hard disk drive off which files were deleted. No matter how many files we delete off the computer hard disk drive, we can save new files and folders on it. We should not save new information on the hard disk drive whose files were deleted at once, at least before the end of the data recovery. The reason is that we may not be able to get what we end back from the hard disk drive use to the overwriting.

2. Do not format the hard disk drive whose data was deleted. As the same, it is better not to format the hard disk drive off which files or folders were deleted though we can format it or there is nothing remains on the hard disk drives. The opportunity to retrieve the deleted contents may be reduced if we delete the hard disk drive. We can format the hard drive after restoring the deleted files wanted and removing them to other hard disk drives if need.

3. Do not use the computer one of whose disk drives need to be performed data recovery. It is better not to use the computer on which we need to perform deleted files recovery. We may use files saved on the hard disk drive whose contents are deleted partly without consciousness when surf on the internet or use the computer in other way. And then the deleted information may be corrupted or overwritten which cause the failure of data recovery.

4. Other notices should be taken of after deleting information off the hard disk drive so as to get them back successfully.

Reason that deleted contents can be retrieved

Those deleted files are still saved on the hard disk drive though we can not see them, but they can be scanned by data recovery tool. So we may be able to get them back with data recovery program if they are not been overwritten.

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