It happens all the time. You decide to clean up your hard drive, and then three days later you can’t find an important file. It’s not in the right folder or the Recycle Bin, and you don’t have a backup of your hard drive. You accidentally deleted the file. Now what?
How to Recover Deleted Files on Windows 10
Take a deep breath, relax your jaw and shoulders. Whether it is an Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook email or any other type of file, with our help, you can recover accidentally deleted files in Windows.
When a file is deleted, it doesn’t disappear. The data remains there until another file overwrites it. There are a few things you can do as soon as you realize that the file was accidentally deleted to increase the chances of recovery.
Ask any IT professional and they'll know of at least one experience where someone thought a file had been deleted, but it had accidentally been moved to a different folder.