Points to remember before recovering deleted files

Deleted files, photos, and important documents are no more scary thing. Various tools are available in the market that claims to recover deleted files. What happens is when you delete a file, its physical content remains intact on the storage media, but the occupied space by that file becomes free. So, if you will save any new file to the disk, it will overwrite the contents of the deleted files. Due to which the deleted file is lost completely. Chances of recovery get reduced deliberately.

In this article, some important points are highlighted that you must remember whenever there is deletion of files or folders. Also, it becomes very important to make sure that no application writes to the drive or partition where deleted file is located, since every new file may overwrite the deleted file.

When you realize that the file which you need is deleted, you are supposed to follow some instructions:

  • Do not open or close files and applications. Many applications create temporary files which may overwrite and corrupt your deleted files.

  • If deleted files were located on the system disk (usually disk ā€œCā€), or if you have only one logical disk in the system, you should not install any software into the system, since it will most likely overwrite your deleted file.

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