How to Use Windows 10 File History and Recover Files?

We have introduced how to recover deleted files in so many different articles with Hdata Recovery support center. To be honest, recovering files is one of the worst things I can image, why most people don’t just backup the important files with Windows 10 File History? May be you don’t know how to enable or use it, here will show you how to do.

Before that you should know what Windows 10 File History is, Windows File History is the tool to backup important files. With this new backup tool, you can easily save copies for your data and files. Also, you can choose which file/folder to save. It will backup the specified file or folder every hour in default, and you can change this in the File History Setting filed.

Below are the steps to show you how to enable the Windows File History:

Step 1: Open the PC Settings app. Select the Update and recovery option.

Step 2:  Click on File History, we will come to the setting page.

Step 3:  Toggle the option that says File History to On. Check out the screenshot below:

When you turn it on and then you will be able to back up your import files now. Just follow up the wizard to set the backup tool run automatically. After that, you need not to do anything; it will back up your important files time by time, according to your setting.

Windows 10 File History will help you save the important files a new copy on external disk or any other storage device, so than when you lost your files you can still get these files back. But it’s not the end, you know, you may not have back up all the files. If the deleted files are not in your backup schedule, what can you do to recover the files?

To solve this problem, most data recovery expert will recommend using the 3^rd data recovery software. The reason to use 3rd data recovery software is to make this as a Plan B so that we can restore those files not in the backup schedule.

You will be able to choose so many different file recovery tools, and below would be one of the best one you may consider.

Hdata Recovery – Easyto Recover All Deleted Files

l  Recover files from formatted hard drive, or deleted by mistake

l  Recover files from different storage devices

l  Free scan for lost files and easy to recover

In fact you can use this software to scan lost files and it’s totally free. It will list all your lost files in the result list for your review, that is to say, you can open all the files before saving on your hard disk.

How to recover deleted files from USB drive?

You can easy to recover the files; I will try to answer your questions one by one with my years of experience on recovering lost data for business or person customers. And for your case, you may recover all the files within 3-5 minutes, it’s not that complex. I will also explain how to do that in the end.

Where are the files after deletion?

Please keep in mind that when you deleted your files accidentally, all the data is still remain on the storage device – that is your USB drive, even you don’t see any of the deleted files. So for us, data recovery engineers will start to find out the data and get the deleted files back.

How to recover the deleted files?

As I said before, to recover files is easy enough; no matter you are a child or old man. Just pick up one great data recovery tool to start this file recovery process. As most of the recovery tool will start the recovering automatically, what you need to do is START and WAIT.

Also keep in mind, you need to choose the real powerful data recovery tool, as not all of them will be safe enough to do the recovery. Here I will list some for your reference:

1 Hdata Recovery Software

Hdata Recovery is one of the most use file recovery software for our team. Why? It’s really simple and easy for everyone. Like I said before, you just need to START the recovery and wait for recovering.  After that, just saves the recoverable files on your storage device. It help us restore so many files for different customers.

You can get from here: www.hdatarecovery.com/download

2 Undelete 360

May be Undelete 360 is not that famous like Hdata, but it’s still ok for USB drive recovery. It’s a small tool kit and easy to use. You can install this program on your PC and take it to scan your USB drive for the lost files. In some of the case, it may not recognize all the lost files, but just fine and acceptable.

3 Easeus

This is also the famous file recovery tool and compatible with most of the USB device. You can easily use it to checking the USB device for the lost files. Please note that no matter how powerful the data recovery software is, it will not guarantee the results that it will recover 100% files. (I will list some tips about how to increase the success rate to get 100% files.)

How to get complete file back?

In my years of data recovery experience, some tips you should know before getting the files back. As some people may complain that why can not get 100% files back. That is overwritten.

1 Do NOT use the USB drive to save new files.

2 Do NOT format the USB drive again as it will erase the data.

3 Start recovery process as soon as you can

The 3 tips are real simple but please keep them all in mind, these are the best tips for making all lost files recovered.

Hdata Recovery Master – Emptied Windows Recycle Bin Data Recovery Tutorial

How to recover files from emptied Windows Recycle Bin? If your file is too large it will not be sent to the Windows recycle bin due to oversize. In such case, how to recover the deleted files which are not saving in the recycle bin should be a big problem. Now we will try to show you about some info on retrieving these files, in this article, you will be able to take 3 steps to get all the files back within minutes.

Emptied Windows Recycle Bin Data Recovery Overview

Please keep in mind that if any oversize file is deleted, it will not be sent to the Windows recycle bin but just be erased from the hard disk. You may not find out these files but you can still have chance to get them back as all the “data” is still on the hard disk. Use data recovery software will help you to rebuild the data structure and get all files back.

In fact, you will also be able to set a larger capacity for the Windows recycle bin with the control panel.

How to Increasing the Recycle Bin Capacity

In order to increase the Recycle Bin capacity in Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, steps given below must be followed:

1.     Log on to Windows 8 computer with administrator account.

2.     On the Start window, click the Desktop icon.

3.     From the desktop screen, right-click the Recycle Bin and from the context menu, click Properties.

4.     On the Recycle Bin Properties box, from the displayed list of drives, make sure that the drive for which the Recycle Bin capacity is to be increased.

5.     Under the Settings for selected location section, make sure that Custom size radio button is selected.

6.     In the Maximum size (MB) field, specify the maximum amount of storage capacity in megabytes for the Recycle Bin.

7.     Once done, click OK to save the changes.

How to Recover Files Emptied from Windows Recycle Bin?

Before you try to start the file recovery please install Hdata Recovery Master or so called Hdata Recovery Windows Recycle Bin File Recovery Software. You may download the free trial here https://www.hdatarecovery.com/download

1 Launch Hdata Recovery Master after installing, you can see the button for Windows recycle bin recovery. Click to go next to start the data checking automatically.

2 The checking program will go deeper than other tools which will help us get the high possibility to find out all the lost files. It will take around 3-5 minutes what you can do is just keep waiting at this time.

3 Now you should see the folders which are recoverable listed. Check out every folder to find out the correct files you would like to be recovered. Or you can just choose the specified file type to filter.

Hdata Recovery Software –5 File Recovery Tips & Recovery Tool Free Download

What is the best data recovery software? How to recover files from hard disk? It would be hard for most of us. To put it simple, a file recovery tool with easy, simple recover process would be fit for us. As for recovering lost files, we what we need is to catch all these file easily.

Before we introduce about the details on file recovery we may need to know more about how to get a high possibility to do that. Here are the 6 tips for recovering files from Hdata Recovery Support Center, which will help us get a great possibility to get all files back.

1 Stop using the hard disk any more.

Don’t try to fix this problem if you don’t have any good idea. In fact we have many times told customers about not to recover files without a good recovery software. In some cases, their carefulness will destroy the data structure and file system, just don’t do that.

2 Don’t install too many data recovery tools.

Not all file recovery tools are good to recover files, also you don’t need to install different tools to make that happen. Usually, one processional file recovery tool is enough. You should download the free file recovery tool here https://www.hdatarecovery.com/download

3 Install the recovery software on external hard disk.

After you recognizing the files lost, don’t try to install any new applications on this hard drive before getting your files back. Any data overwritten will cause the failure on recovery. Install the file recovery software on the external hard disk or a USB disk would be an alternative method to avoid the overwritten.

4 Save the restored files on external hard disk.

We suggest you save all the recovered files on external hard disk rather than the original hard drive. This is also to avoid the overwritten on data. Keep in mind that when you heard the clicking noise come from the hard drive, that seems the hard drive should be physical damage, never save files on such clicking hard drive.

5 Backup your files with File History.

If you would like to know How to backup your important files, that would be a good start for data storage, we encourage everyone should consider about data backup strategy, that’s more important to find out the best file recovery software.