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Deleted file recovery is made possible because the file you accidentally deleted is still on your system. This is especially true if you have stopped saving to the hard drive of your system.

When you do this, you are preventing your computer from possibly overwriting the data on your file. There is no certainty concerning when the files you have deleted will be overwritten; it might be done immediately with the next save action that you carry out. To get your file(s) back after this, will obviously mean engaging the services of a company for deleted file recovery; which is usually not cheap.

To understand better you need to appreciate how computers operate in deleting files. When you delete a file, the file is not removed from the system, but its location is now made available for subsequent saving of data. This is because your computer now recognizes this location as available even though the data you saved there is not removed.

Consequently, recovery of deleted file is needed. However, before attempting one there are certain things you need to know. This will be revealed in subsequent paragraphs along with some information about NTFS data recovery (NTFS which stands for New Technology File System is the default file system for Windows).

The first thing to note before using software to recover file from your hard drive is that it is risky to attempt file recovery on the same hard drive with a single partition where your file was deleted. Such action could destroy your file recovery effort.

The reason for this is due to the fact that some recovery software need space on the hard drive to accommodate recovered files. This means that this software may write over information stored previously on files having important data which might lead to problems with recovery efforts.

If you are in this situation your best bet is to either install a hard drive (new one) with a new operating system into the computer where you seek recovery of file(s) or move your hard drive from your system into another system. This is a safe procedure. NTFS data recovery is Windows NT procedure for achieving deleted file recovery.

Not all data recovery software can be used for NTFS data recovery. This is due to incompatibility. Different software are compatible with different file systems. I don't know if there is any software, which is compatible with all file systems. If there is, it will most likely be expensive. Please take note of all that I have said because it will only help you in achieving deleted file recovery.