Note that you need to make sure your PC's hard drive is selected in the left-hand sidebar.

Next, open File Explorer (it's on your taskbar by default, but you can also find it by pressing Win + E), type the name of the file you're looking for in the search field in the upper-right corner and hit Enter.

Open the Recycle Bin ( hit the Windows key and type 'recycle bin', then hit Enter when it appears in the search results) and look around to make sure the the file(s) you're after aren't there. First, double-check your files to ensure that the one(s) you're looking for aren't lurking somewhere in the bowels of your PC. We've covered all of this in our guide on how to use System Restore in Windows.ġ. However, any files you've added since you made the last restore point will be wiped when restoring to it, so it's good practice to enable System Restore and create restore points regularly. Restoring to a system image is a great way to recover files you may have accidentally deleted.

Windows has a great utility called System Restore, which creates a system image on a regular basis (if you have it enabled - unfortunately, it's disabled by default). How to recover data from a hard drive Recover deleted data from a hard drive in Windows

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