Laptop hard drive recovery Can the temp files be recovered?

What are temp files?

Temp files are temporary files on Windows. When you create documents, a temporary file is automatically created and keep as temporary files until it is saved as an individual file. It is used to back up the data. Therefore, it is useful once upon we have data loss before we can save it. If your computer has sudden crash or unexpected power down, you can use the temp files to recover your data.

If you lost files unsaved in Microsoft, you can follow this way to restore the files.

Open the C drive in My Computer, click the folders “Documents and Settings” > “User name”> “Application Data” > “Microsoft”, you will find a listed of temp files. You can confirm your lost files according to the temp file names. Double-click it you can open this file.

In addition, you can try to use the data recovery software to restore the lost temp files.

How to recover temp files from laptop?

If you accidentally lost the temp files, you still have way to recover them. What yous should do after you lost the temp files is to stop using the computer and try the data recovery software right away. An useful and professional data recovery software can successfully retrieve the lost temp files as long as the files have not been overwritten. Now you can start to recover the lost temp files.

Launch the Hdata recovery software on your computer, click the button of Deleted files accidentally. You have to choose the partition you need to scan. The temp files are saved in partition C, so you should choose the C drive to scan.

The software starts to scan the partition C automatically. The scanning process should not been interrupted if you want to scan the entire partition.

After the scanning process ends, all the results display here. You can find the folder for temp files and to recover them.

Select a recovery path for the files to be recovered. You’d better not save the files to the C drive in case there is a recovery failure that overwritten the raw data.

Finally, you can check the temp files on the recovery path. Open it and save it as individual file on your computer. Although you can recover the temp files, you should always notice to save your files while editing it. Use data recovery software is not always works for you.