How to Recover Temporary And Permanently Deleted Files From Computer

This article explains the reasons that lead to sudden deletion of files and data loss from a Windows based system. It also identifies the ways to recover lost files manually and automatically using third-party data recovery tool. 

For deleting the files and folders from systems, we usually use the Shift+Delete key and sometimes empty the Recycle bin on a regular basis to clear the junk files. The files we download from the Internet initially gets downloaded in the Downloads folder from where we can copy and paste them to the desired location. At times, files are only deleted from their source location and not from the Recycle Bin or the Downloads folder.

Both the ways to keep the system clean is undoubtedly helpful, but, at times when a file or a folder is deleted accidentally, this may lead to despair. As soon as you realized that you have deleted a wrong folder by mistake, you start searching for data recovery methods to retrieve your files. If this is the case, then let's look at the following recovery solutions.

How to Recover Temporarily or Permanently Deleted Files or Folders?

i. Manual Approach
When a file or a folder is permanently deleted, you can create a new folder with the same name on the desktop. The name has to be the same as that of the deleted folder. After the folder is created, select it, then right-click and then select ‘Properties’. Next, select ‘Previous versions’. Windows will perform a thorough search and display all the previous versions of the respective folder. From the enlisted items, you can select the latest version and can select to ‘Restore’ the file on system.

It is not guaranteed if you would be able to recover files and folders using the above stated data recovery method. To retrieve deleted data from the Windows machine, it is effective to employ a third-party data restore solution. When the objective is to prevent the security and integrity of data, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery serves the purpose.

ii. Third-Party Approach

For getting started, you need to download and install the tool on machine. After the tool is installed, select the Data Recovery tab and then select the volume from which data has to be recovered. The tool will scan the selected volume and enlist all the files existing on it. You can select the file deleted accidently and clicked on the recover button. Next, provide the destination storage for saving the resultant file and the procedure to recover deleted files is done.

You can recover temporarily deleted as well as permanently deleted data using the tool. Severely corrupted files can also be recovered using the hard disk recovery software. Even if the data is erased from any of the default folders such as Downloads or Desktop, it can be recovered following the same procedure.

Supported File Formats
Apart from recovering deleted data, the tool provides the option to recover deleted partitions and restore them on the system. The application supports more than 300 file types. Various file formats that can be recovered using hard drive recovery software are:

Office Documents: DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, RTF, PPT, PPTX, PPS, DOT, DOTX, XLT, XLTX, XLW, XLT, POT, POTX, XLW, XLB

Miscellaneous files: TEXT, JAVA, XML, CGI, FRM, DEF, TXT, CC, JS, HPP, CPP, BAT, DSP, PRG, HH, PHP, INI, JSP, CXX, INF, LOG, REG, ASM, ASP, FRM, LIC, VCPROJ, DSW, CSPROJ, H, SLN, PRG

Internet files: HTML, XHTML, HTM, XHT, PLG, SHTM, SHTML, MHTML

Backup files: BKF

Archive files: ZIP, TAR, LZH, ALZ, CAB, ARJ, RAR

Acrobat files: PDF

What Causes Sudden Data Deletion?
Sometimes, data from the system gets deleted or turns inaccessible automatically due to several reasons that include:

1. Operating System crash and sudden close down of any internal application or program

2. Sudden corruption in the file or any program leads to data loss

3. Virus attacks, malicious malware intrusions can be a reason behind data loss

4. Downloading applications from unreliable resource(s) or corrupted media

5. Hardware failure can cause data loss and inaccessibility of data



Factors that Reduce Possibilities of Data Recovery
Sometimes, it is quite difficult to recover a file as there are some factors that reduce the possibilities of recovering data:

· Hard drive incorporates number of bad sectors

· Hard disk has been fragmented recently

· The file or folder was deleted long ago

· Deleted files are overwritten by new data

· Hard drive is quite older and shows signs of corruption

Factors that Decrease Possibilities of Data Recovery
Likewise, there are other factors that decrease the possibilities of data recovery to quite a considerable extent:

· When a file is deleted, and you realized it the very next moment

· The device is not defragmented after data loss occurs

· Hard disk is not much interrupted in the due course of time

· Hard drive recovery tool is reliable and efficient enough

· Hard drive is in good condition, and no bad sectors exist on it

How to Select Data Recovery Solution?
If you have decided to employ data recovery tool to recover and reinstate the lost data, deleted file or folder or erased partition, there are few points that must be considered while employing Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software:

· The data recovery tool must be able to handle all types of corruption issues

· It must integrate different options to scan data to enable user to save time

· The tool must incorporate feature that allows the user to scan a particular volume of data for faster recovery

· The tool must be available in the trial version so that the user must test its capabilities before investing on it

· It must recover data with internal attributes while keeping the original data intact

Whether it is about recovering deleted data from the hard drive or recovery of data from a corrupted storage medium, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery works efficiently. The tool is capable enough to retrieve every possible data.

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Author: Aruna Attri

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