How To Recover Your Deleted Files After Using Shift+delete?

Have you accidentally deleted your valuable data from your Microsoft Windows based hard drive? Do you realize the importance of your significant data after you deleted the data permanently from your hard drive? Well, it is a common user mistake, which is a large factor of data loss. In such cases, an absolute backup of your valid and complete backup proves great help. In case, the backup is not updated or available at all, file recovery is the only way to sort out this behavior.


When you create a file in your computer and you save the file on your hard drive, a file system entry for the particular file is created. The file system index is used by operating system to locate and access files from hard drive. The file system entry of the file contains all file related information, such as name, type, size, and format.

When you remove any data from the hard drive, only the file system entry is removed. The disk space, occupied by the deleted data is declared as free and can be used to store new file. After deletion of file system entry, operating system can not locate and access the particular data and critical file loss situations.

When you simply delete a file from a Windows computer using 'Delete' button, the file is moved to 'Recycle Bin' folder and can be restored from there. However, if you remove a data from from Windows hard drive using 'Shift + Delete' key combination, the file bypasses the Recycle Bin and deleted permanently.

Although, you can not restore the data from Recycle Bin folder after deleting it using Shift + Delete key combination, but the data is not deleted forever. The deleted files remains physically intact on the hard drive until it is overwritten by any other file.

In such situations, you can easily restore the data from backup and perform file recovery. However, if backup is not updated, the deleted files can be recovered easily using advanced and efficient third-party applications, called file recovery software.

The applications use high-end scanning mechanisms to carry out in-depth scan of entire hard drive and extract all lost files from it. Such file recovery software are incorporated with self-descriptive and interactive graphical user interface to offer easy recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most advanced and efficient utility to safely recover lost, deleted, or missing Windows files. The software supports recovery from all NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.