Data loss happens frequently in our working life. When you decide to clean your hard drive or USB flash drive, you will delete some folders or files. You can easily recover deleted files from Recycle Bin if you delete them by right-clicking on them. However, if you press the Shift + Delete keys, empty the Recycle Bin, or delete large folders larger than 8998MB, these files will be permanently deleted from your computer. So how to recover permanently deleted files in Windows 10/11?
If you find that there are no deleted files in the Recycle Bin, it means that your file has been permanently deleted from your computer, but it will not disappear permanently and the data will remain on the hard drive until overwritten by other files.
To improve your chances of recovering your files, when you realize that files have been accidentally deleted, do not perform any operations on the hard drive where the deleted files are located. Then use the following methods to recover deleted files.
1. Recover permanently deleted files through file history
Using File History is a great way to recover permanently deleted files. It not only retrieves deleted files but also restores files to previous versions if needed.
If you haven't turned on File History, this method won't work for you. To open File History, you can navigate to Control Panel > System and Security a>. "File History" >
1. Press the Windows + Q keys to open the search box and enter "Restore via File History your file", then click Open.
2. Navigate to the destination folder containing the deleted files. When you find a deleted file, click the Restore button to restore the file to its previous location.
3. If you remember the folder that contained the deleted files, right-click the folder and select Previous Versions, restore the folder to the version specified based on the date.
2. Recover deleted files through data recovery software
If the file cannot be retrieved without turning on the file history function, you can use professional data recovery software, such asNiu Xuechang Windows Data Recovery Tool, a professional and secure data recovery software that can help you recover a variety of data lost due to various reasons from a variety of device types.
It can recover a variety of data types, including media files, office files, compressed files, etc., including JPEG, PDF, DOCX, MP3, EXCEL, ZIP, and more than 200 types of data.
Steps:
Step 1:Download and install the Niu Xuechang Windows Data Recovery Tool. After starting, the main interface is as shown below. Select the disk where data needs to be recovered.
Step 2: Scan and preview. After selecting the data type to be scanned, click "Scan" and the software will scan the selected location thoroughly.
After the scan is completed, the software will list all deleted files in the selected location. Click"File View" to view Displays all dataaccording todata categories.
Step 3:Recover data. Check the data that needs to be recovered, and then click the "Recover" button to select the recovered data to the specified folder to recover the deleted files.
The above are two methods for recovering permanently deleted files in Windows 10/11. The above methods can help us retrieve lost file data!