How to Recover Files from Emptied Recycle Bin

Windows Recycle Bin is a virtual folder that exhibits the information of files deleted in Window Explorer by users. It records the information such as name, deletion date and the original location of every deleted file. Recycle bin is not an actual folder so it does not have an absolute path. The actual location of recycle bin depends on the operating system and file system. For Windows Vista and above with NTFS, each drive has a $Recycle.Bin folder under it, which normally is set to hidden. Deleted files are stored in these $Recycle.Bin folders and take up as much space as they used to.

The desktop Recycle Bin merely collect the information about the deleted files and presents the details to users. It does not host these deleted files. By browsing the desktop recycle bin, you can choose to restore or permanently delete any deleted files. But when you emptied the recycle bin, does it mean these files are gone forever?

For people without too much technological background, maybe. Windows does not offer any default tool to recover files deleted from recycle bin. But when files are emptied from Recycle Bin, they are not actually gone physically from your computer. Instead, these deleted files will continue to exist in hard drives in their raw form as clusters of 1s and 0s. It is the pointers in the address table that have been removed. This means these files are invisible to users and the system will view the space they used to take as free space that can be used to stored new data. It is more efficient this way than erasing every file that got deleted because erasing means writing 1s or 0s to the old file every time you delete something. Just imagine the amount of time it would take! A file would only be truly deleted when it is overwritten – the original combination of 1s and 0s has changed in order to form the new data. Emptying the Recycle Bin will not erase the files from the hard drives, which means with the right tool, we can recover the deleted files successfully. Here we recommend a professional data recovery tool – H Data RecoverySoftwre – to recover files permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin.

How to Recover Recycle Bin Deleted Files?

H Data Recovery is a fully featured, powerful data recovery tool that can handle multiple data-loss situations. Follow the step-by-step guide to learn how to recover recycle bin deleted files:

Step 1. Free download H Data Recovery Software. Install and launch the software.

Step 2. Click on the “Emptied Recycle Bin Accidentally” module. This module is designed to recover files deleted from Recycle Bin.

Step 3. The software will then automatically start the scanning. The process will last several seconds. When it is done, all the files that have been deleted from Recycle Bin will be listed. Browse and preview the files and select those files you wish to recover.

Step 4. Choose a path to store the recovered files. Remember to save the files on another drive or partition to avoid data overwriting. It is important that you act fast when you attempt to recover deleted files. They are no longer protected by the system and can be overwritten by new files at any time.