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Wondering whether you can recover the accidentally deleted Word documents on your Windows 10 PC? It's glad to tell you that generally YES and you can do it with the help of this post. Before successfully recovering your deleted Word file, you need to stop using the location where the Word file is deleted to prevent the deleted file from being overwritten.
If the Word file is simply deleted without emptying Recycle Bin, it will be easy for you to get it back. You can open Recycle Bin and then find the deleted Word document. Then right-click the file to choose Restore in its context menu, which will restore the deleted Word file to its original location. Or you could directly drag the Word document from Recycle Bin to the place you want.
Backup restoration can help retrieve the deleted Word file effectively. Although the recovered file might not be the latest version you want, you will not lose the file completely at least. However, this way has a limitation that it only can be applied when you have backed up the deleted Word document before. If you have such a backup luckily, don't hesitate to restore it. For example, you can follow the way below to restore your backup created with Windows Backup function before.
Step 1: Head to Control Panel and choose Backup and Restore(Windows 7) under System and Security.
Step 2: Click Restore my files under Restore.
Step 3: Click Browse for files to add the needed Word file to restore.
Step 4: Set a location to restore the Word document and hit Restore.
BitGenius is the robust data recovery software from iSunshare. It can easily recover accidentally or intentionally deleted Word documents, as long as the documents are not overwritten. Certainly, BitGenius also supports recovering other types of files like photos and videos in various data loss situations, such as drive formatting, virus attack, etc. When the above 2 ways are not available, using iSunshare BitGenius is no doubt a good option. To try this intelligent data recovery software, you can do what the following says.
Step 1: Download and install iSunshare BitGenius on your Windows computer.
Step 2: Run the tool and then select the location where the Word file is deleted to scan in the interface.
Step 3: The data scanning process will be ended with a prompt "Scan Finished". When you see the prompt, it's time for you to choose the wanted Word file to recover.
To locate to the target Word document quickly, you can click Filter and then check Document under Filter Settings. At last, hit Apply to make the tool filter out all lost documents. If you remember the file extension of the deleted Word file, you can enter it in the search bar so that the target document is shown faster.
Step 4: Check the Word file you need to recover and hit Recover to set a location to save the recovered file. Here, the location cannot be the place where you delete Word documents.
Step 5: Once you see the small box as follows, it means that data recovery is successfully completed and you can click Yes to view them.
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