What may cause file loss in HP laptop?

HP (Hewlett-Packard) has been working on building a reputation for high-end laptops for many years. HP laptops are known for their wide selections and excellent reliability. Even if you use such an advanced device to store your files such as documents, photos and so on, you may suffer from data loss.

When viewing and modifying files, you may accidentally delete them. Other risks, such as hard drive corruption, power failure or system crash can also cause your files to be lost. What’s worse, these files are not found in the recycle bin.

If you have already backed up HP laptops in Windows 7, you can restore them in time. But for various reasons, you didn’t prepare a backup. In fact, they are not immediately destroyed, but just marked as inaccessible and invisible files. You still have chances to recover deleted files from HP laptop.

How to recover deleted files from HP laptop?

Once files are deleted, do not write any new files on your HP laptop as this may greatly reduce your chances of recovering deleted files. Then use the following strategies to get your files back.

Way 1: Recover deleted files via HP Recovery Manager

Many HP laptops come with a free application that allows HP users to backup and restore files. You’ve probably guessed it – HP Recovery Manager. If you have already backed up files with this HP laptop data recovery program, then you can restore them by following the steps below.

Step 1. Find and open the backup folder on your laptop. Then double-click the executable file (Restore.exe), which created during the backup process.

Step 2. Allow access for the program to make changes in the system by clicking Yes.

Step 3. When this program opens, click Next.

Step 4. Select which file types you want to recover and then click Next.

Step 5. A message shows you where the recovery files are stored: C:\System Recovery Files. Then click Next.

Step 6. Wait for the process to be completed. Then click Finish to quit the program.

Way 2: Retrieve lost files with Recoverit Pro

If you didn’t prepare a file backup in advance, you can turn to the powerful data recovery tool – Recoverit Pro. It is able to retrieve a variety of deleted files from all data loss scenarios. More pleasing, it serves you well as HP photo recovery software.

This program works with Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP. You can follow these steps to learn how to recover deleted photos from HP laptop.

Step 1. Install and launch this program. Click Deleted Files Recovery to start.

Step 2. Select the location where you lost your photos. Then click Start to begin scanning for deleted files.

Step 3. If you can’t find the photos you want after scanning, please use All-Around Recovery to get a deep scan.

Step 4. Select the photos you want to restore and then click Recover to save them on your HP laptop.

Tips: File modified date works well when you need to filter files.

Although files can be recovered without a backup, it takes a long time for scanning and recovering. Sometimes you can’t even recover them, as you edited some new files on your HP laptop before restoring. To prevent files from being lost, regular backups are necessary for users.