How to get back accidentally deleted data

You must have come across this problem of - How to get your data back which has been deleted accidentally. Hastily, you may Shift+Delete the wrong files. So here’s a small write up which tells you how you can recover your data back.

First of all whenever you delete a small or a large chunk of data, you can always do a full system restore ( if you haven’t affected the OS itself ). But a full system restore should be your last step.

So what can be done other than doing a full restore ?

Restore From Backup: You can always get your data back from the most recent backup, if you have taken some time out before to ensure your data is accessible in these kind of situation. Making full backups is very much useful since you can use them for these kind of situation.

Using Backup Software: 

There are lots of software which can be usThere are lots of software which can be used to recover your data, but the one that bitsquad suggests is Recuva for Windows. It can scan your drive for deleted files and restore them if possible. It usually backs up everything if you’d run this software not after a long time since your data is lost.

Save Redundantly: 

The above, but it’s recommended that you avoid this thing by saving important files to two different locations (preferably on two different hard drives), or by keeping a daily backup of your most important data. I know, you must be thinking that it’s impossible to backup your whole system everyday but it’ll not take too much of time and space of yours to get important once backed up.

I know most of you are lazy beings to get a backup, so most of you will be going with the 2nd way. Although there are many other software, Recuva is one of the most convenient and user friendly software which we can use to get backup of deleted files.

Hope this article will help you a lot in saving your critical files from getting deleted.