How to Recover Deleted Files from HP Laptop in Simple Ways?
What may cause file loss in HP laptop?
HP (Hewlett-Packard) has been working on building a reputation for high-end laptops for many years. HP laptops are known for their wide selections and excellent reliability. Even if you use such an advanced device to store your files such as documents, photos and so on, you may suffer from data loss.
When viewing and modifying files, you may accidentally delete them. Other risks, such as hard drive corruption, power failure or system crash can also cause your files to be lost. What's worse, these files are not found in the recycle bin.
If you have already backed up HP laptops in Windows 7, you can restore them in time. But for various reasons, you didn't prepare a backup. In fact, they are not immediately destroyed, but just marked as inaccessible and invisible files. You still have chances to recover deleted files from HP laptop.
How to recover deleted files from HP laptop?
Once files are deleted, do not write any new files on your HP laptop as this may greatly reduce your chances of recovering deleted files. Then use the following strategies to get your files back.
Way 1: Recover deleted files via HP Recovery Manager
Many HP laptops come with a free application that allows HP users to backup and restore files. You've probably guessed it – HP Recovery Manager. If you have already backed up files with this HP laptop data recovery program, then you can restore them by following the steps below.
Step 1. Find and open the backup folder on your laptop. Then double-click the executable file (Restore.exe), which created during the backup process.
Step 2. Allow access for the program to make changes in the system by clicking Yes.
Step 3. When this program opens, click Next.
Step 4. Select which file types you want to recover and then click Next.
Step 5. A message shows you where the recovery files are stored: C:\System Recovery Files. Then click Next.
Step 6. Wait for the process to be completed. Then click Finish to quit the program.
Way 2: Retrieve lost files with Deep Data Recovery
If you didn't prepare a file backup in advance, you can turn to the powerful data recovery tool - Deep Data Recovery. It is able to retrieve a variety of deleted files from all data loss scenarios. More pleasing, it serves you well as HP photo recovery software.
This program works with Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP. You can follow these steps to learn how to recover deleted photos from an HP laptop.
Step 1. Install and launch Deep Data Recovery on your computer. Select the partitions where the deleted or lost files are stored and then click "Start Scan".
Step 2. The software will scan the partition automatically in a fast scan and deep scan. You can recover the deleted files you want to recover when you find them in the scanning list during the scan.
Step 3. You can input the file names in the search bar or quickly find files by type, size, and date modified. Select the needed files and click "Recover" to save deleted data to a different location.
Although files can be recovered without a backup, it takes a long time for scanning and recovery. Sometimes you can't even recover them, as you edited some new files on your HP laptop before restoring. To prevent files from being lost, regular backups are necessary for users.
Tips: File modified date works well when you need to filter files.
Although files can be recovered without a backup, it takes a long time for scanning and recovering. Sometimes you can't even recover them, as you edited some new files on your HP laptop before restoring. To prevent files from being lost, regular backups are necessary for users.
Better protection for your vital files
It has been reported that users may meet some HP file backup program stuck problems when using HP Recovery Manager. Additionally, HP Recovery Manager only works for HP users. If you have other brands of laptops, you have to look for an alternative.
Qiling Disk Master Standard is such an alternative. It serves all brands of laptops including HP, Samsung, and Lenovo, etc. Unlike HP Recovery Manager, this utility owns an excellent stability. Two backup methods are supported – File Backup and File Sync. If you want to view your files at any time after backing up, you can turn to File Sync, as it creates no image files.
By using it, you are allowed to backup files to internal/external hard drives, cloud drives, NAS devices and network. You can enable its auto backup to save time. If you run an incremental and differential backup, this utility will copy changes only to save disk space for you.
Above all, it is available as a free download (works with Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP). Come and try it!
Verdict
How to recover deleted files from HP laptop? Solutions are presented in this article. Unexpected events come without a notification. Thus, you'd better do regular backups with the above freeware. Besides, this freeware is featured with file restore that enables you to restore files from backup.