DIY: Guide to Recover Deleted Files from Windows 7

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Losing important files can be a frustrating experience, but if you're using Windows 7, there are ways to recover deleted files. In this comprehensive guide, we will walk you through the process of recovering deleted files from Windows 7. Whether you accidentally deleted files or they were lost due to system issues, following these steps will help you maximize your chances of successful file recovery.

Section 1: Check the Recycle Bin

• Open the Recycle Bin: Double-click on the Recycle Bin icon located on your desktop.
• Browse through the Deleted Files: Look for the files you want to recover. If you find them, right-click on each file and select "Restore" to return them to their original location.

Section 2: Recover Deleted Files Using Previuos Versions

• Right-click on the Folder Containing the Deleted Files: Navigate to the folder that previously held the deleted files.
• Select Restore Previous Versions, right-click on the folder and choose the Restore Previous Versions option from the context menu.
• Choose a Previous Version: From the list of available previous versions, select the one that predates the deletion of your files.
• Recover the Files: Open the selected previous version and copy the deleted files to a safe location.

Section 3: Use Deleted File Recovery Software to retrieve deleted files from Windows 7

For those who have deleted their essential files, here is an efficient approach to recover deleted files from Windows 7 computers. Generally file deleted from Windows hard drive will be held in Recycle Bin, from which it is very simple to restore back upon realizing the mistake. Suppose if the deleted file is not listed in Recycle Bin or the contents of Recycle Bin are cleared, then user will forfeit those files. In order to restore such files, one needs to use deleted file recovery tool.

Many a times you end up deleting files from desktop of the computer. In such situation, you can restore deleted file from desktop using deleted file recovery software. Simple deletion of file will never wipe the stored data. Only the reference pointer which directs to the stored location of the file will be removed and space assigned as available to store new files, but the actual information remains intact until and unless the deleted file is overwritten with new data. Unfortunately such information is inaccessible to operating system without a pointer but Windows file recovery software retrieves such raw data with the assistance of file attributes. One can also perform Mac deleted file recovery using compatible file recovery software.

One has to choose appropriate recovery software to restore deleted files. Recover Deleted Files (Windows) is one of the best utility to undelete deleted files from Windows 7 based computers. With an advanced scanning algorithm, it retrieves deleted files within few minutes. This application is not only restricted to hard drives, it also able to restore deleted data from flash card, USB drives, external hard drives, iPods, etc. As a flash memory card recovery software, it is capable to enough for SD card deleted data recovery along with recovery from XD card, MMC and others.

NOTE: To increase the chances of deleted files recovery from windows 7 drive, as soon as the files are deleted from your Windows 7 drive, immediately stop using the drive from where files are deleted to avoid overwriting of the files. If the memory space that was occupied by the files just deleted, are replaced with the new files, then it's highly difficult to get back those deleted desktop files. Then, immediately utilize Deleted Files Recovery Software and recover your deleted files on your Windows 7 system in three clicks.

Steps to recover deleted files from Windows 7:

Step 1: Download Deleted File Recovery tool and install it on your Windows 7 computer and open its home screen as shown in figure 1. Then, connect the Buffalo Linkstation hard drive to the computer, and select Recover Files option from the main screen. Then, a list of available drives are listed on the screen. Now, choose the Linkstation drive from where deleted files has to be recovered, and hit Scan button to begin scanning process.

Figure 1: Home Window

Step 2: Now, the software scans the selected drive to find deleted files & folders. Wait untill the scanning process gets completed, and just monitor the screen as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Scanning in Progress

Step 3: Upon the completion of the scanning and recovery process, a list of recovered files are displayed in Data View, and File Type View, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Recovered Files

Step 4: Finally, before saving the recovered files, you can preview the recovered file just by right-clicking on the file, and hitting Preview button, or just by double-clicking on the respective recovered file, as shown in the below figure.

Figure 4: Preview Recovered Files

Step 5: At last, select the destination drive where files has to be saved, and hit Save, button to save the recovered files, as shown in the below figure.

Figure 5: Save Recovered Files