How To Undelete An Accidentally Deleted File

If you've just accidentally pressed "delete" and deleted a file on your PC, your first port of call should be to go to the Recycle Bin. Depending on where you deleted the file from, there's a reasonable probability that your file will be showing there and you can just right click your mouse and select "Restore".

But what can you do if the file doesn't show up in your recycle bin? Is the file lost permanently? It's almost never unimportant, backed-up files that get deleted by accident. What a pain!

The good news is that almost always, it's possible to retrieve a file from oblivion. Even if your recycle bin thinks otherwise. This is because the Windows filing system doesn't delete the file but rather it flags the space occupied as something it can use again when it needs to.

The bad news is that the more you do on your computer, the bigger the chance that Windows will overwrite some or all of the lost file, which will make recovering it expensive or maybe not even possible.

So you need to stop what you're doing on your computer. That means stop everything. Including browsing the internet, looking through your music files, and so on. The more time you take to stop, the higher the chance that Windows will think it can re-use the space you've created by deleting the file.

If you've got access to another computer, use that to download a file undelete utility like this one. If you haven't got the use of a second PC then it's possible that you'll be OK using your only computer (the chance increases if there is a large amount of disk space left unused) but this is definitely not the best way.

Once you've downloaded a file undelete software program, it's just a matter of following the simple prompts on screen and there's an exceptionally big probability that the software will recover the file you accidentally deleted.

You can download a file undelete program here. There's even a free trial, you can be 100% sure it will work for you.