If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

If you accidentally overwrite an important PowerPoint business presentation, you may think you've lost your data and hours of hard work. Windows 7, however, includes a Volume Shadow Copy feature that ...

Lost important data accidentally and need a solution to recover deleted files fast? This complete Recoverit File Recovery guide explains everything.

Have you ever been in a place where you’ve been working on an Excel file for hours, and suddenly all of your work has been lost? It might be due to an unexpected power loss or a system crash, ...

Since Windows doesn’t offer a direct way to open these show copies or restore points, we will use third-party software— Shadow Explorer. This program can read all the System Restore Points and display ...

OS: WinXP Pro<BR><BR>Boss did a "Save" instead of a "Save As", and overwrote an important (to her) Excel file.<BR><BR>As far as I know, their is no way to recover that data.<BR><BR>Am I ...

Are overwritten files really, truly gone? Or could some snoop, given enough money and resources, get that data back? In my story last week, Surviving a home data disaster: How Shirley got her files ...

(Not sure which forum is best to put this in, since I'm not sure at what point in the chain of saving / storing a file this problem happened, but I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say maybe it's ...

The situations that can cause data loss or file deletion on a Mac are varied. You may accidentally delete files or empty the Trash bin without realizing some crucial files were included. However, ...