A Quick Guide to Recovering Accidentally Deleted Files
How many times have you deleted a file believing it to be no longer required only to realize a few weeks later that you still needed some important information from the file? Of course, you may have immediately rushed to the Recycle Bin to see if you could still retrieve it from there. If you were lucky, you may not have emptied your Recycle Bin but if you were to have, then you might have just moved on to dealing with the fact that you had lost your file permanently. But what if we told you that using a powerful program such as Advanced NTFS Undelete you could actually undelete files that have been removed from the Recycle Bin? Cursed your luck and wondered why you did not know about this earlier?
You should first of all be aware that when you delete a file from your computer, you are not doing anything to the file itself other than to tell the computer that you do not need this file anymore. So actually, the file remains where it was on the hard drive; only now the operating system of your computer deals with it as though it is gone. Which means you cannot see it and hence open it or work with it. But then that should make it easy to undelete files, correct? Not entirely.
When you tell the computer that a particular file is not needed, it essentially views the space as free space and it may start writing new data on this at some point of time. For the time being however, your file stays where it is but hidden from your eyes. So how do you then restore files that have been deleted even from the Recycle Bin? By using programs such as Advanced NTFS Undelete.
The way most undelete programs work is as follows ' they search your NTFS hard drive for files that your computer cannot read but are still located on your hard drive. You might wonder how you will be able to find the particular file that you wish to undelete but most undelete programs come with powerful search facilities that will let you quickly identify the files that you are looking for and then undelete files. In fact, Advanced NTFS Undelete lets you recover entire folders and the folder hierarchy within recursively.
Advanced NTFS Undelete gives you complete control over your files and even if you were to accidentally delete your files, you can use it to quickly and easily restore your deleted files.