Recover Deleted Word Document

Have you deleted Word Document & now thinking how to restore them back????

 You can get your answer in this article but first you have to walk through the reasons that lead to loss of word files. Microsoft word is word processing program that creates word files & can be found in .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt format. It is also enriched with features such as templates, hyper linking, spelling & grammar check, embedded macros, etc. and can be used in both business organization & educational purposes.

There is nothing frustrating & annoying than losing word files after creating a report of 50 to 60 pages related to your work or academic project and all of a sudden it gets deleted without your knowledge. There are various reasons which results in deletion of files such as accidental deletion, unintentional formatting, emptying the recycle bin without checking, interruption during read or write process, virus attack, etc.

Will you be able to recover deleted word document?

OfCourse Yes!!! when a file gets deleted from the system, the allocation space is just marked as free to make the drive re-usable. But the items & all the information remain intact on the disk unless & until your drive is overwritten by new files. So to restore back files successfully stop using the drive immediately once you realized that you have lost your files. Then make use of recovery software to retrieve files back. First let us go through some data loss scenarios.

Common reasons that result in deletion of files from computer:

• Unintentional deletion: If you delete a file using “Shift + Delete” option then it bypasses the Recycle Bin & file gets deleted from the system, delete files through Windows command prompt, emptying recycle bin without checking, etc.


• Using cut & paste command: If you are transferring files from computer to external storage device by using “Cut + Paste” command key & by any chance your device is moved or you pull out it suddenly then files disappears because it has already been removed from the source location so it gets erased.


• Formatting drive: Accidentally formatting a partition during re-installation of Operating System or formatting the drive without proper back up also result in loss of files from the drive.


• Antivirus scanning the drive: Often hard disk gets affected by virus and as a result it becomes corrupted & you cannot access files present in it. While performing antivirus scanning sometimes files gets deleted along with the virus when program cannot repair the affected file.

Word File Recovery software is efficient software that can used to restore back all deleted files. It has a special algorithm that scans and recovers around 300 file types from different data storage drives. The utility also has the ability to restore from SATA, SCSI and IDE hard drives, external hard drives, USB drives, memory cards, iPod, etc. It can also effectively recover deleted files from SD card,SDHC card, SDXC card, XD card, SD card, CF card, MMC, Memory Stick, It can also recover deleted excel files from MS Office with ease.

Follow the steps to recover word files:

Step i: On main screen you will get three options, select "Recover Files" & then select either "Recover Deleted Files" option to recover deleted word document.

Figure 1: Home Window

Step ii: On the next screen you will find list of logical drives, select the drive from which you have lost word files & then go for recovery process.

Figure 2: Select Hard Drive

Step iii: After the process is over you can preview the list of recovered files as shown in figure.

Figure 3: Recovered Files