It is easy to retrieve deleted files from the Recycle Bin until you empty the bin. Then you need a utility like free undelete to retrieve those files you accidentally deleted and forgot to retrieve before you emptied the bin. With the utility Recuva you can quickly find delete files. Recuva is a free Open Source utility that is found on Linux Live CDs that can be used to start-up and run a computer even if Windows fails to start. With the Linux Live CD you can access the hard drive and search and recover deleted files and lost data quickly.
Linux Live CD’s are becoming popular rescue disks because of the ability to start your computer from a CD even when the operating system fails to start. This allows you access to the hard drive and recover files quickly and easily. Even if the files have been deleted Recuva can locate the files and quickly restore them. Once you have gone through the frustration of losing important data you will start backing those files onto a USB drive or second hard drive. I find the operating system (OS) to be my biggest problem so I create hard drive images of the OS which allows me to restore the entire (OS) or hard drive in minutes. This has worked well for me in my computer lab where I maintain over 35 computers. I takes me about 10 minutes in the morning to restore all 35 computers to a fast and well optimized OS for my students. Since all the students hace admin rights to perform their labs it has become a must for me to quickly and easily restore the computers to save me time each of having to troubleshoot the problems. I have found that over 90% of all the computer problems I see are software related. So imaging make life good again.