You open your hard drive to access an important presentation, only to find it missing. Suddenly, hours of work seem lost, and ...

(Pavel Ignatov/Shutterstock) Delete a file in Windows, and you can often recover it even if it’s no longer in the Recycle Bin. Third-party data recovery tools are available, but they can be expensive.

Missing folders? Unreadable files? Corrupted hard drive? Sooner or later, most PC users lose data of some kind. Here’s a series of steps you can take in Windows 11 (or 10) to bring things back. Sadly, ...

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You can back up and restore files with Windows’ built-in File History tool — but there are key limitations you should know. When Windows 8 made its public debut in October 2012, one of the new ...

“It’s been over a month, but I have accidentally deleted some photos via the recycling bin, and I’d really like them back. I’ve heard of Windows recovery files, but I’m not sure how they work. Any ...

In contrast to the many data recovery scans found in competing apps, Seagate curates just two: Simple & Quick scan, which searches for recently deleted items, and Advance & Detail, which scans a ...

Windows File History is still the easiest, cheapest (free) continuous data protection software for Windows. The Add folder function has been removed, but it will back up Libraries you create yourself.

File History is a feature in Windows 11/10 that saves copies of your files so that you can get them back if they are lost or damaged. If you want to enable Previous Versions, you have to enable File ...

With ransomware attacks dominating the headlines, the need for safe and reliable data backups is more evident than ever. All businesses fear losing their data — or access to their data. In a ...

So after loosing the latest versions of some files I was working on when an app crashed (I back stuff up manually but it had been a couple of days) I decided to give File History a try (I've been ...