How to recover items deleted from Recycle Bin?

As computer users, Recycle Bin is no stranger to us. We use it every day. And we also get know that the items we sent to Recycle Bin are still recoverable. What we need to do is just to click Restore. But how many people do know how about the items we deleted from Recycle Bin?

The working theory of Recycle Bin:

When we delete an item from hard disk, windows operating system will send it to Recycle Bin. But if you deleted an item from floppy or network drive, it will be deleted directly. The items in the Recycle Bin are still recoverable and still occupy a part of space of hard disk until you want to delete them from your computer. But if there's no more available space, windows will automatically delete it directly. You also can empty the Recycle Bin to get much space. Once you emptied the Recycle Bin, you cannot restore them directly. Most of us would be depressed when we accidentally empted the Recycle Bin containing a vital item that we want to get back. We thought we lost it forever. It's too late for regrets. Actually, we didn't lose it in a sense. All items deleted from Recycle Bin or by Shift + Del or windows command line are still in the hard disk. So you still have a chance to recover the items deleted from Recycle Bin. When an item is deleted, a symbol will be marked at the head of its section telling this section is released and new data storable. When you store new data next time or take use of space, this section would be overwritten. Once overwritten, this data cannot be recovered any more. It means that the data deleted even you empted from Recycle Bin is still recoverable only the hard disk is not overwritten.

How to recover items deleted from Recycle Bin?

It's a piece of cake. You just deleted these symbols at the head of sections, and then you can recover the data. How to delete these symbols? Here you may need a data recovery tool. There're plenty of data recovery tools in the market. You can search through Google. Here I take Wondershare Data Recovery for example.

Step1. Download the free trial and install it to your computer.

I have to remind you that you do not install Wondershare Data Recovery to the same partition where you lost data for avoiding overwriting the formatted hard disk.

Step2. Select the hard disk you deleted items from and start to scan

When you open the application, you will find there're four options for recovery. You can choose the first option, Deleted Recovery. If you remember which folder your items deleted from, you can select the target folder. In this way, you will save much valuable time.

Step3. Choose your target items

Here you can see all recoverable files on the hard disk or the folder are listed. You can choose files or folders to continue recovery.

Step4. Select or enter a path for saving recovered items.

We highly suggest you never to select a path that is located in the hard disk that you're searched data from, in case it would eventually overwrite the source data.

And now, all items you deleted from Recycle Bin have been recovered. You can review them and enjoy the pleasure that recovery brought to you.
After reading this article, you will never worry about when you accidentally deleted items from Recycle Bin. Don't hesitate, have a try now.