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 ...

Is your memory card accidentally formatted, and now you need to recover it? Perhaps you formatted it on purpose, and then ...

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 ...

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 ...

We wish recovering deleted files was as simple and mindless as clicking a jet-black button on your keyboard. It seems like the files we hold most precious to us – the folder housing our smorgasbord of ...