"Never Let Anyone Tell You That You Cannot Recover Deleted Files!"

The basic process to recover deleted data is something that most computer users are fimiliar with. But to be sure that we are thinking along the same path to recovery, let's review the two fundamental processes to recover deleted information, and then I will address the others.

Your first option

All mainstream operating systems - computers - are programmed to recover deleted files. You may take them for granted, or not know of them at all, but they exist. Here's how to recover deleted folders and files:

Start looking for the trash-bin icon on your desktop. Open it up and begin looking for the data. Double click on whatever you want to restore, and it will recover deleted files to the exact place where you trahed it in the first place.

Note, if you are shaking your head wondering why I even explained that, in self-defense I have to say that I get calls everday, about how to recover deleted files, with the person restoring their files after I ask them if they have checked their trash. Yes they are out there and this letter is to them.

The next step

Yes, the second one way to recover deleted information is almost as obvious as the first one, but the point is to not ridicule someone for their lack of knowledge; it is to get them results, no matter what it takes, right? So, here goes:

"Start" > "Search" > "What do you want to search for?" to recover deleted files. If you cannot understand this language read the following: On the task bar at the very bottom of your computer screen, find the Windows start button, and then click it (MAC lovers have a similar tool). Then look for the magnifying glass with the word search attached to it, and open it up, too. Finally, on the left hand side of the screen, look for the what question and then follow the directions.

The meat and potatoes

Most likely you have landed here hoping to find one of those majic undelete file tools that will recover deleted data in a flash. Go up to the menu option software and several choices are waiting to be downloaded. Make sure you burn a couple of them because not all programs produce the same results. That's why there are a few options available.

The $10,000 file

Yes, you can recover deleted data that is worth a lot of money. I have! A client accidentally deleted his monthly magazine that costs him over ten grand to publish. Without our knowledge of how to undelete a file manually - after he failed to do it with software - he would have lost his reputation and a lot of future business.

The client said he was willing to pay a lot of much money to just recover one file, although he didn't have to, because he knew the future value of his firm depended on it. Keep in mind that if all else fails, and the situation feels like life or death, services is another possibility to recover deleted files.