You may have accidentally deleted important word documents from a hard disk before saving them to a CD or any other storage device.
In order to recover documents / files that are deleted or lost, you need to do the follow certain precautions. They are – avoid saving any new data in the hard drive from which you want to recover documents / files. If you want to retrieve the lost / deleted files at a later stage, then stop using the hard drive so that you can ensure that the files are still intact. If new data is saved / written to your drive or if you install any applications on that drive, you may perhaps decrease your chances of recovering data.
Documents or files may be lost due to various reasons listed below -
- Human errors
- Deleting documents accidentally
- Files deleted by using Shift + Delete key combination
- Software failure
- Power glitches
- Operating system / hard drive crashes
- Virus attacks
Documents / files may be deleted from hard drives, memory cards, external hard disks, or USB drives or any other storage device, the data is still recoverable even after deletion / loss. When you delete files any hard drives, only the pointers are deleted but not the actual file, it remains in the hard disk drive until it is over written, as that space is marked as empty space which available for rewriting.
It is easy to recover documents by means of deleted document recovery software but care should be takes that you did not save or write anything on the disk. This software supports file recovery after reinstalling Windows operating system. The more actively you use the drive the harder it becomes to restore the lost / deleted data. Since the lost files will be badly overwritten by the newly written / saved files.