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 ...

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 ...

Has it ever happened to you that you’ve tried to find an important file, document, photo or anything else and you find them missing from your PC? Well, we think that all of us have gone through that ...

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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 ...

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 ...