Losing important files–whether they’re business documents, precious photos, or even favorite videos or songs–is certainly distressing. The data isn’t necessarily gone forever, though. Whether you’ve ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool, designed to retrieve ...

You open your hard drive to access an important presentation, only to find it missing. Suddenly, hours of work seem lost, and ...

Do you often find yourself in a situation where you accidentally delete files from your Windows machine and end up repenting on your gaffe? Well, now you don’t have to, thanks to Microsoft’s recently ...

Losing files from an internal/external hard disk is absolute nightmare fuel. One wrong click, a blue screen of death, or your cat stomping across the keyboard, and your files are outta sight. So, you ...

What are Shadow Volume Copies? Since Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 20013, Microsoft has bundled a technology into their operating systems called Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS. This ...

Accidentally deleting files can lead to nightmarish scenarios. Even if files are deleted on purpose, there still may be a reason you’ll need to recover a past draft or version of a file. Fortunately, ...

With that $30 price tag in my mind’s eye, I went into my https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,78994-order,3/description.html (limited free demo) hands-on ...

What is surprising here is that Windows File Recovery is a command-line tool, i.e., no user interface. As soon as you launch it, it will display a list of options that come with the tool. It expands ...

The computer ate my term paper! We’ve all been there. You delete an important file—maybe even shift-delete it by accident (on Windows)—or you forget about it until that split-second after you clear ...