A File Crisis... Do's and Don'ts

It was late, you were working on that final paper for college... You saved the file, after you saved it you went and checked that it was on the folder... When you were doing this, you accidentally erased one of your most important files.

You are looking for a word to describe this, !Shit, Fuck, Oy Vey¡ You worked so hard, why the hell did I do that?...

First of all, DO NOT PANIC follow the Do's and Don'ts below


DO's and Don'ts in this crisis

Don't: Do not, by any chance continue working or saving anything in your computer, if you do this you may end up losing all your files FOREVER.

Don't: Do not let time pass, the more time you lose, the more possible it is for your files to be lost FOREVER.

Do: first of all check the Recycle Bin, If you haven't erased any of the files from the recycle bin they will probably be there. Notice that depending on the properties you selct, the recycle bin might have a periodical time when it gets emptied by the PC, that is why you have to act fast

Do: If your files are not in the recycle bin, you must look directly in your hard drive... When your files are erased from your recycle bin or "from your PC" they end in a part of your Hard Drive which is a sort of a subconscious. The reason you must stop working and saving files is because, since the computer considers that you have deleted these files on purpose it will eventually overwrite in them new files.

If you want to look in these part of your Hard Drive, follow the link below and download the undelete software.

If you have programs such as Norton 360, you probabbly don't know but Norton has a backup folder of your deleted files so you can probabbly find your erased files here. There are tons of other backup and recovery programs, these are just a few examples...

If this software doesn't work for you, try googling the following words:
Free Undelete Utility or Free Recovery Software Utility.

DO: When you have your files back, please DO NOT forget to create backup folders for all your files... This is a crucial step so that if this happens again you already have the solution which is your backup file... Remember that you must have backup files outside of your PC so that if for some reason it gets damaged or it is attacked by a virus, you always have your backups.