Accidentally deleting files can lead to nightmarish scenarios. Even if files are deleted on purpose, there still may be a reason you’ll need to recover a past draft or version of a file. Thankfully, ...

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

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool, designed to retrieve ...

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, ...

In an era where everything important is done on computers, we have all become dependent on one simple command: "Ctrl+S". Live by these keys or suffer the consequences. Losing a single document could ...

Often used as storage for important photos and other files, SD cards can hold some of our most precious memories. This makes it all the more gutting when you accidentally lose data from an SD card – ...

What are Shadow Volume Copies? Since Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 20013, Microsoft has bundled a technology into their operating systems called Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS. This ...

The situations that can cause data loss or file deletion on a Mac are varied. You may accidentally delete files or empty the Trash bin without realizing some crucial files were included. However, ...

Have you encountered a Word file corruption issue with a notice: “Word experienced an error trying to open the file”? Microsoft Word will offer three solutions to ...

Julia is a writer in New York and started covering tech and business during the pandemic. She also covers books and the publishing industry. Cassie is a former deputy editor who collaborated with ...