How to recover permanently deleted files from Windows?

What is the definition for permanently deleted files?

Permanently deleted files are files deleted from recycle bin or pressing “shift+del”. These files are removed from your computer but not erased from the hard drive. They still stored on your hard drive until they are erased.

If you permanently delete your files from your computer by accident, you can recover them at the first time. Even if you made a mistake to delete your files, you do not need to be panic. The action of deletion only deleted the file names, the content of the files keep on the drive as long as no data overwritten happen.

What will happen when the files are deleted?

To know what happens when you delete a file, you will understand why deleted files can be recovered.

When you delete files from file system, they disappear from your computer. Then the deleted files are marked as deleted. The cluster they occupy will be marked as free so that these marked free space are available for other files. At the same time, as there is no change to the data area(data area is the place stores the real content), the real content of files will be still on the hard drive. Therefore, these content can be detected by data recovery software.

How to recover permanently deleted files from Windows?

As we have mentioned above, when you permanently deleted your files from your computer, they will not be removed immediately. Only the file names are deleted, the real content are still on the drive. Therefore, you should take measures as soon as possible. If you do not recover them immediately or you keep using your hard drive to store new data or run programs, you will lost some or all of your files.

Step by step guides to recover permanently deleted files from windows

First, stop using your computer to store new data, or reinstall, restart your computer.

Second, run the data recovery software. You will see six mode on the software interface. If you deleted them from recycle bin, you can choose the mode of Emptied recycle bin accidentally. If you do not know the exact location of your data loss, you can choose the mode of Deleted your files accidentally, or Universal Recovery.

Third, choose the partition where you lost your files.

Fourth, click to scan the location you choose.

Fifth, choose a recovery path to save the recovered files. You should not choose the location where you lost files or need to be recovered.

If nothing else, with a good data recovery software, you can recover all your files back. Aside from recover deleted files, Hdata recovery can also recover lost files from a crashed, formatted hard drive, and other USB devices. Once you have data loss, you should seize time to recover them to reduce the data loss. No data recovery software can always help you to retrieve all your data in any situation. Back up is always necessary.