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 ...

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 ...

If your file has been truly deleted and then overwritten, the sad news is that you probably won't be able to retrieve it. However, there are two theoretical methods that seem promising, so perhaps the ...

Is your memory card accidentally formatted, and now you need to recover it? Perhaps you formatted it on purpose, and then sometime later, you remember those one-in-a-million photos or some crucial ...

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 ...

With that $30 price tag in my mind’s eye, I went into my PCTools File Recover hands-on thinking that it would be just anotherover-priced undelete utility. Ten minutes in, I was thinking “ByGrabthar’s ...

Yesterday Microsoft pulled the Windows 10 October 2018 Update as some users were reporting that they were missing files after the update had finished. Later in the day, the head of the Windows Insider ...

On the file servers of the domain NWZ there is a service running that takes so called "Shadow Copies" of the stored files twice a day and puts them in an extra storage area. With this "Volume Shadow ...