No need to write files or install programs on HDD or a USB flash drive that contains the information you want to recover. This is due to the principle of deleting information, the fact is that when you click on the "delete" button, the information is not actually deleted, but only its header is erased, the file or folder itself remains, but the next time it is written to a disk or USB to the place where there is a deleted file or folder, new information is being written, the old, accordingly, is no longer recoverable.
Ways to recover a deleted file or folder.
1) Check cart
The first and the simplest thing to do is to check the Recycle Bin for a deleted file or folder. To do this, click on the Trash icon on the desktop and if you see a file or folder that you accidentally deleted, right-click on it and select "Restore"... The data will be restored to the same place where it was before the deletion.
If you are not lucky and you did not find the deleted file or folder in the recycle bin, in this case, you need to use one of the recovery programs described below
2) Use the free data recovery software Recuva.
First of all, we go to the site Recuva and download latest version programs. Then you start the installation of the downloaded program, the installation process is very simple, the first step is to select the installation language.
Then we indicate Extra options(whether to create a shortcut on the desktop, whether to look for program updates ...), you can leave the default. Please note if the remote file was located on the disk where it is installed operating system(often drive C), then the Recuva program should not be installed on this drive, otherwise installing it can overwrite the file and it will not be possible to restore it. In order to select another disk for installing the program, press the button "Additionally" and specify a different installation path for the program.
After that, you will be prompted to install the browser Google chrome, if you do not want to install, uncheck the box.
After installation, the Recuva wizard will be launched to help you recover your files or folder. I strongly recommend using the wizard, since it is more understandable and convenient. Click "Next"
Selecting the type of the recovered file
Select the location where the file or folder was located.
Check the box "Enable in-depth analysis", press "Begin".
After that, the search for files will begin, this can take up to several tens of minutes, depending on many factors (computer power, disk size, or USB devices, disk speed, USB device speed, etc.).
After searching, you will see a list of files that can be recovered. If you want to get more detailed information about the files, you can click on the button "Switch to advanced mode".
To restore the file, check the boxes next to them and click the button "Restore", then specify where to restore the file and within a few seconds the file will be restored. 
3) Using the paid EasyRecovery program.
I, like many others, for free software, but in this article I will describe file recovery and using paid program because in my test restores this program saw more deleted files than Recuva (2385 files versus 2461). I would recommend using this program in case the free one did not help. You will not lose anything anyway, since with this program you can find for free deleted files, but only to restore these found files and folders you will need license key.
So, first of all, we download the latest version of the program EasyRecovery (in this example I will use the Home version). Install ... the process is not complicated, we agree with everything and click "Next", let me remind you that the program must be installed on a volume (disk) from which you will not recover a file or folders, since you can overwrite the file or folder being recovered. After installation, we launch the program, the first window will appear the licensing window, which can be skipped if you click "Run as a DEMO"... The first EasyRecovery window appeared in front of us, click "Continue".
In the next window, select the location where the file you want to restore is located.
The next step is to select a recovery scenario. If a file or folder was simply deleted, it is recommended to select "Deleted File Recovery" if the hard drive / USB flash drive have been formatted must be selected "Formatted Media Recovery".
After that, an information window will appear in which all the specified search settings are indicated, if you have not messed up anything, click "Continue".
The search for files will start, this process can take quite a long time, depending on the size of the volume hard disk or USB device, computer power, etc. After the entire disk or USB flash drive is scanned, you will see all the deleted files divided into groups depending on the extension. If you click on the file and try to open the file (Open) or save it (Save as), you will be prompted to enter a license key, without it, the file cannot be restored.
I hope given step by step guide helped you restore your files and folders, saving you a lot of time, and possibly money. In the future, I recommend using a backup of important files, if you can store important files on several media, or at least in different folders.
It is not easy for a modern person to imagine his life without a computer and the Internet. Considering the speed with which universal computerization covers all spheres of our activity, it remains only to wonder how instantly a person adapts to changes. Working without computers has become almost impossible. Therefore, the issues of data storage and information processing are becoming more relevant than ever. Many of us have had to deal with the unpleasant situation of deleting the necessary files.
Are there ways to get back the deleted, but necessary, information? Is it possible and if yes, how exactly can you recover deleted files on your computer? Let's consider in order all the methods of recovering information on your computer - from simple to complex. So, the first situation.
How to recover a file from the recycle bin
So, you unintentionally deleted a file from the folder by pressing the key "Delete" or swiped it with the mouse to the trash on your desktop. This is a fairly common situation that even a beginner can easily deal with. The fact is that backup storage of all deleted files on your computer - the same notorious recycle bin, does not give you the opportunity to permanently delete information from your hard drive.
At home, you have thrown your garbage in the trash can in your kitchen, but you haven't taken it out yet. This is how the Windows Recycle Bin works. It is worth digging in it and you can easily find the loss.
By clicking on the trash can icon on the desktop, you will see a list of all recently deleted files. Sort by date, and find the file you need. Revert it to its original location by simply right-clicking and selecting the dropdown menu item - "Recover file".
How to recover files deleted from the recycle bin
Situation number two: you cannot find the deleted file in your computer's recycle bin. Most likely, you emptied the trash, or it took this action automatically.
Another way to recover deleted files is to use this Windows functions how to restore a backup. To see if there are previous versions of a folder, select Folder Options - Previous Versions.
Select the folders of the previous shadow copies in turn and look for the information you need.
This method will only work if you have not disabled the protection and recovery system. Unfortunately, due to resource savings, many users disable this option. And they make themselves even bigger problems. Therefore, we ask you to consciously choose between the security of your computer and questionable performance acceleration.
How to recover files using third-party programs
The third situation is stalemate. You did not find the deleted files either in the recycle bin or in previous versions.
Time to panic? No, not all is lost. If the native means of recovering and protecting information from Windows did not help you, the time has come for heavy artillery. In this case, we recommend the third party utility Recuva.
Easy to use, and most importantly - free program allows you to recover files deleted from the recycle bin. Download the distribution kit of the program (in other words, the installer) from the official website and run.
The program is quite simple to operate, and you can easily return the information you need with Recuva. In this case, you need to understand that time is against you. The safety of deleted files is also negatively affected by your activity after deletion. The more time has passed, the more actions are taken, the less chances of recovery. This is due to the fact that sector of hard discs are being overwritten all the time.
I must say that happy owners of SSD drives will not be able to use the Recuva program: support solid state drive automatic function TRIM makes the recovery process impossible.
When recording information on the disc, TRIM searches for the cell with the least number of write cycles, and immediately writes a new one there. This even use of memory cells eliminates the need for defragmentation and speeds up disk performance. You have to pay for such an advantage - if files from the trash have already been deleted, they cannot be returned.
If the information has not been deleted, and the disk is simply out of order, then here you can contact the professionals. Choose good specialists from a reliable firm and contact them. It is often easier to pay a certain amount of money and hope for a positive outcome.
Let's try to summarize. So, despite constant criticism, Windows has many useful tools one of which is creating and storing backups documents and folders. If you are not using standard elements system protection, in case of deleting files, you can hope that third-party utilities will help you.
Modern computers are multimedia devices and also data storage centers. But sometimes you can accidentally delete required files... In this case, do not worry, because they are recoverable.
How is information stored?
After deleting a file from your computer, it is not physically erased. In the file table, it is assigned the label "0", which means that other information can be written at this place on the hard disk. Therefore, you can recover an accidentally deleted file. But remember that some of the information can be irretrievably lost.
Data recovery
To recover deleted data, use special methods and third party programs(they scan the drive and look for fragments marked "file deleted").
Windows tools
The easiest way to recover is to return files from the Trash. This is a place to back up deleted documents before erasing. It is limited in size, after exceeding which the information stored there is deleted to make room for new information.
Open the Recycle Bin → RMB on the desired document - Restore.
You can recover files from the Recycle Bin only if you have not permanently deleted them (by pressing Shift + Del) or have not emptied the Recycle Bin. In this case, you can return the lost information only with the help of special programs.
Special programs
After emptying the Recycle Bin or permanently deleting data, you can restore it only using special programs that scan the device's internal storage.
Important! To recover deleted information, it is better to remove the hard drive and connect it to another PC to exclude the possibility of "accidental" data erasure.
Recuva
Recuva has an intuitive interface.
- In the Recovery Wizard window, specify the file type and drive to scan.
- Then start search. If the information was deleted a long time ago, enable deep system scan.
- When the process is complete, the found files will appear in the utility window. Those marked with a green circle can be restored. If the found file is marked with a red circle, it cannot be restored.
Healthy! Before restoring, you can view the document data.
EaseUS Data Recovery
The advantage of EaseUS Data Recovery is that it creates a secure Recycle Bin, in which files are stored for as long as possible and protected from being erased.
- Select the type of files to recover and the location to search.
- If EaseUS Data recovery found nothing, run deep scan.
- Specify the required documents and start the recovery process.
It is quite easy to accidentally delete files from your computer. But it can be problematic to restore them. Especially if you don't know where to start. Below you will find a selection of programs for recovering deleted files for Windows. You can safely use any of them to recover lost data.
It is best to keep one of these programs installed on your computer, so that if necessary, you can simply launch and restore lost files without too much trouble. This is extremely important, since the success of the procedure depends on the number of file operations (writes to disk) that occurred after the files were deleted.
06/20/2016, Anton Maksimov
There is a great variety of programs on the Internet. Daily users install and uninstall different programs... In some cases, for a variety of reasons, a system crash occurs, and some data can easily disappear. The most important data on our computers are documents, photos, audio and video archives. To prevent yourself from losing important data, it is highly recommended to make regular backups. Well, if it so happened that the data is lost, but there is no backup, then Recuva comes to the rescue. It is a freeware program for easily recovering deleted files (whether as a result of a crash or mistakenly deleted by the user).
12/26/2014, Anton Maksimov
A lot has been said about creating backups, but still there are different situations. Sometimes a disk may fail, or it will be accidentally formatted, forgetting to write off important data from it. As a result, recovery is urgently needed. In this case, comes to the rescue software package Hetman Partition Recovery.
According to the developers, this product will help recover data from hard drives, USB drives and even memory cards as a result accidental deletion, formatting, deleting "past the Trash" via Shift + Del, blocking by a virus, system failure or damage to the media.
02/27/2012, Marcel Ilyasov
Undelete 360 is a file recovery software. Undelete 360 is completely free (for home use) and has a high-quality translation into Russian. For scanning and recovering data, unlike any other similar programs, the application uses a more efficient search algorithm, which can significantly reduce the time it takes to pre-scan hard drives. The application can work with flash media, memory cards, CD \ DVD, ZIP, external HDD etc.
02/10/2012, Marcel Ilyasov
Information is value, and losing that value is very, very unpleasant. And in some cases, the information is so valuable that its cost can reach tens, hundreds and even millions of rubles / dollars. Hard drives, flash cards and memory cards that store our data allow us to achieve a very high degree of storage reliability, but they also have failures. In addition to device failures, human absent-mindedness also leads to information loss - any user can easily "by inertia" delete important documents, and only then realize that he did something wrong. In any of the options, there is a chance to recover information. In the event that it is not hardware failure, then you can try to carry out the recovery yourself using specialized utilities. One of the tools to resurrect files from media is EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free.
It often happens that objects that are important to us (files, documents) are accidentally deleted. Then the question arises whether it is possible to recover deleted files? Sometimes they can really be returned, and sometimes they are completely lost forever. There are a number of methods for doing this. We will consider the fastest and most convenient options for restoring further.
How to get back deleted files from the recycle bin
Objects that are deleted from the computer are moved to a specially created section called "Recycle Bin" on the computer. It represents an icon on the desktop. This is where all the files that we remove from the computer are sent to. Therefore, all deleted items can be easily returned. If necessary, they can be removed completely and permanently.
To reproduce the recovery, you need to open the Recycle Bin. There you can see all the objects that were previously erased from the PC. To restore them, that is, to return them back to the folder where it was previously on the computer. You will need to click on the file of interest with RMB. Then a list will open, from which you need to select the "Restore" item. 
After that, the selected object will disappear from the Trash. This suggests that he returned back from where he was once removed. For example, if it was previously in the "Documents", then it will return back to the "Documents".
But the user does not always remember where the deleted file was originally located, how to find it then? Having opened the "Trash", seeing there an element that needs to be returned to the old place, which is unknown, you need to click on this object of interest, which is in the "Trash", then look at the bottom of the folder. This will be the found address of its location.
It will indicate the location from which it was removed. When restoring, he will return to the same place.
Only those items that have been removed from the computer can be restored in this way. Flash drives deleted from a CD / DVD disc cannot be returned in this way.
Use a restore point
Rolling back to early point recovery cannot return such objects as: program, documents and files. So only deleted shortcuts from the desktop.
To return them, you need to go to the menu of the main folder of the computer by clicking on the icon on the desktop, then select "System Properties". 
To the left of the window that opens is the "System Restore" item, which usually opens immediately.
Then go to the tab called "System Protection". Click the "Restore" button. 
A new window will prompt you to restore to the earliest control point... If necessary, then possible rollback to any other point that is available for recovery. 
How to recover a deleted folder using third-party programs
How do I recover files? A huge number of special programs have been created for this. It is with their help that you can easily do this. For example, Magic Unerase, Symantec Norton Utilites, MunSoft Easy File Undelete, PC Inspector File Recovery.
How to recover deleted folders with the free utility Recuva
First you need to download the file located on the developer's official website. Free and paid versions are available for download to the average user, which differ in a set of functions and capabilities. After downloading, start the process of installing the application on the PC. 
Immediately after starting the utility, you will be prompted to restore the files. Click "Next". 
In a new window, for convenience, simplification of work, the choice of the file type (pictures, music, documents, etc.) will be offered. By default, the universal type "All files" is selected there. 
To increase the speed of work, the directory where the data deleted from the computer was previously stored will be available. 
To get more accurate results, you need to put a checkbox next to the item opposite the line to enable in-depth analysis in the next window. Click "Start". 
At the end of the check, the Recovery Wizard will show the entire list of lost documents. These are all objects that the utility was able to detect. The application will be able to recover only those marked with a green circle without loss. They are marked in red, probably, it will not be possible to return, since other elements have already been written on them, most of the information about the object has been completely lost.
By putting a tick in the box next to the file of interest to us and clicking the "Restore ..." button, the processing of the specified task will begin. 
At the end, a window will appear. In it, select the location where you want to send the recovered file. Then press the "OK" button. 
If the PC user succeeds, then at the end of the process a window will appear with a message about the successful completion of the process.
After that, open the place to which you returned and check the item for functioning.
