Many times I have lost a document or photo, accidentally deleted something or simply moved it without thinking.
It happens a lot more than you realise and sometimes data is not missing or needed to be recovered, just simply found on the hard drive.
If you know the name of the file you can search for it with in your operating system or with the use of searching software. If you do not know the name of the file you can always search by its file extension.
A file extension is the name of the type of file after the period sign. For example, if it is a image i am looking for such as a photo, I would start by searching the file extension .jpg.
Look in your Recycle Bin
It happens so often, we loose a file and think something more sinister is at play, when all that happened was we deleted it.
Fortunately, if you have not recycled your bin yet, the files you deleted would probably still be in there.
If you can not find your recycle bin because it is not on the Desktop, you can search for it or enable it on desktop settings in your control panel.
If you can not find them by search or in your recycle bin, you might need someone professional data recovery in which Townsville computer repair Nerds and help you.
Drag and Drop
Sometimes our best friend, other times our worst enemy, the drag and drop is a infamous culprit when it comes to loosing files.
The good thing about copying and pasting and dragging and dropping is if you do not do anything immediately after it, you can quickly reverse your last command or process on your computer buy hitting Control Z on your keyboard to reverse the last function.
If this happens a lot it could be your mouse (if it is wireless) battery might be running out or your laptop track pad might be too sensitive or faulty.
Can always go to Kmart and buy a cheap USB mouse to test.
Viruses
Some viruses not only delete your data, also hold it to ransom or generally just mess with you.
If you think you might have a virus on your computer deleting your data it is best not to use it at all and bring it in to Townsville computer repairs Nerds.
The problem when trying to recover data if you have a virus is most people use software on the same computer they are trying to recover the data on.
This can result in the data being written over, or the software not working because the computer you are using the software on is already compromised.
