How to Recover Almost Anything — Recovery Tips for You

Almost everyone who accidentally loses a file or data in the computer will swear of a sickly feeling right from the stomach. A life’s work is lost and no matter what you do it seems that you can never get it back. You tried to press the back button to return to your last file but all you get is a message flashing on the screen that your file or data is unreadable, is unformatted or worse, is nowhere to be found.

Recover with Undo Function

Remember that when writing on a document the Undo function of the document can bring you at least a few steps back through the actions you made. If ever you accidentally lost important information that you have recently typed on the document, do not panic. Try the Undo function and you may retrieve the important information back. A word of caution, though, most notepad applications have an Undo function that brings you back a single step. This trap is very frustrating because you tend to undo and redo the same action you did on a file until you have realized that the information is already gone.

Use the Search Function

If the whole file is lost, the first thing to do is to be sure that you can never recover it. Before trying out any recovery softwares, try to look for the file first with the Search function. You can invoke the Search function from the Start bar or from the View tab. Remember to select “All files and folders” as well as all the hard drives connected to the computer. For Windows Vista, you can invoke the Search function from the Start and by clicking the dropdown arrow beside the Advanced Search option, you can look for recently modified files by selecting the “Date Modified.”

Use File Recovery Applications

If the file seems lost, you have another chance. It is a good thing that data and files leave digital imprints that specialized software or applications can recover. There are undelete utilities available from the Internet that can help you recover your data. The free sharewares PC Inspector File Recovery and FreeUndelete can help you recover files from your PC while the Data Doctor Recovery can help you recover files from your USB driver. Unfortunately, teh Data Doctor Recovery costs about US$ 49 but it has a free-trial evaluation period.

Use Data Recovery Tools

Accidentally clicking “Yes” when asked if you want to reformat your drive may be a long shot for recovery but it can be done but with a price. For recovering data from reformatted drives, you need a data recovery utility with a higher horsepower. There is the File Scavenger from QueTek worth US$ 49. For more serious data recovery, Easy Recovery Professional from Kroll Ontrack will assist you with a high-powered recovery of data as well as repair tools. Unfortunately, this software packs about US$ 500.

Get Professional Help

Recovering files from a dead or worned-out drive is almost near-impossible. A burnt-up hard drive will definitely crash along with its saved files. To prevent your files from going history, immediately retrieve the files and transfer them to another storage device. For damaged files, you can recover them by asking for professional help, for example from DriveSavers.

Back-Up to be Sure

For those lucky ones who have never experienced losing data, the first thing to do to prevent future accidents and face this dilemma is to avoid losing data and observe the rule of back-up. Backing-up data and files is a sure way to avoid the frustration and disappointment when losing important documents in the PC. Always store an important file or document to at least two storage device.

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