So you have lost some vital information from your hard drive disk? You are perhaps by this stage worrying that you will never get that information back. Well chances are, if you haven’t left it for weeks or months you have a very good change of recovering that lost data. A lot of different terms are used for this including “undelete” and “recovery”. The reason you have a chance in recovering the lost data is because the recycle bin is not the end of the road, it is only a display that the file or information has been removed, much like deleting a shortcut without actually uninstalling the program.
The hard drive itself leaves an audit trail of information behind it whenever you do anything. It creates small particles of information that it uses to access the complete file when asked to.
Ok so lets say, you deleted something by accident 2 days ago. There are a series of free and easy programs out there that will let you recover that file.
Some are better than others, as you would expect, but its worth going through the list and trying different programs. Here are a list of FREE and usable programs that may help.
These are free programs and are probably ok to recover small files that haven’t been written over, over a period of time. If you are looking for a more in depth service and a higher chance or recovering lost files from weeks or months ago you may be more suited in searching for a service from professional recovery companies.
Most companies will not charge unless they can recover the data for you, so you are left with a guarantee for the service they provide. Some of these companies include: