Special techniques allow finding this information, interpreting it and utilizing to recover deleted files. Also, the Microsoft's newest ReFS file system performs all updates using the copy-on-write feature, never overwriting the live data without creating its copy within unused blocks. NTFS, which is commonly applied on internal drives, keeps a record for a file with all allocation information. The FAT/exFAT file systems used on external drives wipe the information about the location of the file clusters but preserve its name, size and start position. Restoring a deleted file is possible until new data is written over it. Fortunately, owing to the peculiarities of this OS, in most cases files remain recoverable by means of other options.Īs a matter of fact, Windows simply marks the sectors occupied by a deleted file as free while its content remains on the storage device.
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Also, files deleted from a portable digital medium usually bypass this container, let alone that the bin itself may get emptied afterwards. However, this handy feature won’t help when an item has been removed using a more advanced method of deletion – like the Shift+Delete keys combination or a Windows prompt command. What can I do to recover deleted files from Windows?Įvery Windows user knows that deleted files and folders can normally be retrieved from the Recycle Bin.