You may lose your word documents from the hard dive due to various reasons like accidental deletion, emptying the recycle bin, deleting a document by using Shift+Delete keys, deleting a document or folders using command-line or through dos, Virus infection, improper system shutdown, power surges, cross linked files, operating system malfunction, and lost due to the format or corruption of a hard dive.
What happens when you deleted a word document?
Once if you deleted a word document or any other files from the hard drive, it do not erase the file completely form the hard drive. Only the pointers to the files are deleted from the partition table where the files are structured. The Operating System makes the free space available for saving new files but still the old deleted files will be present on the hard drive in inaccessible form. In such cases you can easily recover deleted word documents by using word documents recovery software. There is very less chance of recovery when the files are overwritten by new files.
You need to check the features of the software before performing recovery. Check whether the software supports deleted document recovery from various data loss scenarios. Make sure the selected application supports Office file recovery, and various file types like doc, dox etc. check the software can able to recover files from Windows 7, Vista, and Win XP operating system. Before finalizing the software download the demo version of the software to the recovery results. If you satisfy with the recovery results buy the software and perform deleted document recovery. Follow the few simple steps to recover deleted or lost word document.
- Remove the hard drive and connect it to a another computer as a secondary storage device
- Download and install word document recovery software to the computer to, which you have connected your hard drive
- Run the software to recover deleted word documents
- Follow the instructions given by the software to recover deleted documents from the hard drive.