Recover deleted Word document
Word document, is one of the most commonly used files for storage of textual data in the present day. Nothing is more frustrating, than losing, important and confidential documents or letters, present in the Microsoft Word file format,if the person using the file, has been working on it for many days.
One of the common misconceptions about file deletion is that, when you delete a file from the Recycle Bin, it is gone forever, and is not recoverable. Although a file that has been deleted, becomes inaccessible by the computer’s Operating System,the data present in the file, still remains on the hard drive and is recoverable using recovery software.
After the deletion of a file, recovery is still possible because, when a file is deleted, it is the pointer to the file that gets deleted, and not the actual data present in the file.You have to act quickly, to increase your chances of recovering the deleted file, as there are chances of the data sectors present in that file, being overwritten by new data.
REMO Recover (Windows) Basic Edition software, uses advanced techniques to locate the deleted files and restore them back to a safe location. Using the software, you can not only recover accidentally deleted Word files, but also, files emptied from the Recycle Bin and files deleted from Windows Explorer.The best part of using this software, is that, the user does not need to be technically skilled, to use the software.
Follow the steps given below, to recover deleted Word document(s) using REMO Recover (Windows) Basic Edition software.
Step 1: Download REMO Recover (Windows) Basic Edition software, and run it.
After the application has been installed, run it, by selecting the icon from the programs list in the Start menu, or by double clicking the desktop shortcut. The Main window pops up, as shown in figure a.
There are four options that are displayed: Recover Deleted Data, Recover Lost file, Recover Photo, and Recover – Advanced. Select the Recover Deleted Data option.
Figure a: Main window
Step 2: Select Logical Drive
As soon as you click on the Recover Deleted data option, a new window is displayed, as shown in Figure b. All the logical drives detected on your PC are displayed. Select the logical drive which contains the deleted Word file, and click on the Next button.
Note: If the logical drive you are looking for, is not displayed in the list of logical drives, then use the Search lost partitions option, to find the lost partition (logical drive), and proceed with recovery process.
Figure b: Select logical drive
As you click the Next button, the application scans the selected drive for deleted data and lists all the found files and folders in a tree format under the Root folder as shown in Figure c.
Figure c: Found Files and Folders
Step 3: Locate deleted Word document(s)
After the tree for found files and folders is displayed, the next step is to locate your Word document.The application provides two options for searching for your deleted files.
- You can use the Find option, by clicking the
button, to locate the Word file, by entering the filename or the file extension. For e.g. filename.docx, or *.docx . as shown in Figure d.
- The Find Next
option can be used after the Find option, to locate subsequent files with the same file extension, in the selected folders, that form a part of the tree structure. You can also use the Preview function to preview the file, before it is recovered.
Figure d: Locate Word file
Step 5: Save the recovered Word file
The next and final step is to restore your found Word file to a safe location. Click on the file you wish to recover as shown in Figure e.After you have selected the Word file, you want to recover,click on the Save button.
As soon as you click the Save button, a window to select the destination drive to restore the recovered file is displayed as shown in Figure f.
Figure e: Select file to be recovered
Figure f: Select destination drive
Select the destination drive, and specify the file types you wish to ignore(file filter) while saving.If you want the data to be restored in a compressed format, select the Compress data option . As you click the OK button, the application starts saving the data to selected destination drive.
Once saving is complete, a message pops up intimating the same. All the data will be restored into a new folder by name “UndeleteX”, in the selected destination drive. You can now access your recovered Word file as before.
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