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Computer users are prone to lose data stored in the hard drives. This could be due to various reasons such as accidental deletion of document or a folder by using shift + Delete command, emptied recycle bin, unintentional formatting, missing or lost files, software failure, power glitches, drive corruption, virus attacks, or improper shutdown. Though data loss due to any of these reasons makes your stored data inaccessible, this will not erase the data permanently from the hard drive. When you delete a file from the computer it never gets deleted permanently, unless you use a special erasing program. The deleted data will remain in the hard drive till it gets overwritten by new data. If you want to recover those files from the computer you need a good deleted documents file recovery tool that allows you to recover documents lost due to deletion, or formatting.
Tips to recover lost documents:
Stop using the hard drive immediately for any read or write operation till you recover deleted documents from the drive.
Do not install any new recovery software on the drive.
Do not run any programs that utilize free disk space.
Do not save any new data on the hard drive as this could overwrite old data leading to permanent data loss.
Before buying the software ensure whether the software can recover documents from different data loss situations and different data types. Download the trial version of the software to check the capability of the software in recovering deleted documents. Follow the steps mentioned below to recover files.
Connect the hard drive to a functioning system as a secondary hard drive
Install a deleted word document recovery program to the functioning system
Run the recovery software.
Follow the instructions to recover deleted documents from the computer.
Note: Do not save the recovered documents on the same partitions.
