Until now, there was no official way to recover deleted files on a Windows 10 computer. Finally, an update to Windows 10 adds the Windows File Recovery tool. Let’s find out how to recover deleted or deleted files on a Windows 10 computer using Windows File Recovery Tool.

What do I need to bring back the deleted file?

You need to have Windows 10 Build 2004 or higher installed on your computer to recover deleted files using Windows File Recovery Tool. In other words, in this case, it is necessary to have any update of Windows 10 installed on May 2020 or later.

Note that Microsoft’s file recovery tool software does not have a graphical interface. This is a command-line utility. This means that the entire process of bringing this file back to the command line interface (CMD) will be completed.

Microsoft Whether the file recovery tool will be able to recover a deleted file depends on the type of drive. Deleted files are not immediately deleted from the hard disk drive. However SSD storage The case is different. Usually In SSD Once a file is deleted, it is permanently deleted from the drive.

How to recover deleted files on Windows PC?

For this you will find many types of tools or software. However, in today’s tutorial, we will show you how to recover deleted files on your computer using Microsoft’s official software.

That’s why first from the Microsoft Store Windows File Recovery Tool Download. Open Microsoft Store and search by typing ‘Windows File Recovery’ but you will get the desired software. After installing, find ‘Windows File Recovery’ from the Start menu and select ‘Run as Administrator’ from the options.

Then select the drive from which the deleted file will be retrieved and the drive on which it will be saved via winfr command. Example:

After running the command, the recovered file will be saved in the drive where ‘Recovery_'[date and time]A folder named ‘will be created. Recovered files will be saved in this folder.

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Which mode to use?

Windows Before recovering deleted files on PC, it is important to decide which mode you will use to recover the file. There are three types of file recovery modes – default, signature, segment. Default mode is the fastest mode. The segment method is very similar, but a bit slower. Files can be searched on file types in signature mode. It supports ASF, JPEG, MP3, MPEG, PDF, PNG, ZIP etc. files. Office documents such as DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX can also be found by searching the ‘ZIP’ file.

It is important to know which file system the drive you are scanning is formatted by. To find out, go to the ‘General’ section from the ‘Properties’ of a drive to find out what kind of file system the drive is formatted. Selecting the data recovery mode on the file system is an advantage. E.g.

• Use default mode to recover deleted files from a drive formatted by NTFS file system in Windows 10.
• If the drive becomes useless after deleting and formatting a file from the NTFS drive, it is best to use segment mode first and then signature mode.
• If you want to recover files from a drive formatted by FAT, exFAT or reFS file system, use signature mode. Default and segment mode only works on NTFS drives.

If you are unsure about the drive’s file system, you can try default mode first and then other modes later.

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How to restore Windows files to default mode

To use the default mode, you need to add / n next to the drive letter of the drive you are searching for. To find a file named file.txt, you need to type n file.txt. Also complete file paths can be written, for example: / n users John Documents file.txt

Suppose you want to scan all the files in the Documents folder, then type / n Users John Documents. To find all files with .txt extension, type / n Users John Documents *. Txt.

In other words, to see the file recovery command, you have to look a lot like this:

winfr C: D: / n * .txt

Here .txt is the file format. If you want to recover a word file, you can enter a word format such as .docx.

After entering, you have to confirm by typing y to continue working.

You must also type to find all the files with a specific name

winfr C: D: / n * project *

At the same time many kinds of files can be found E.g.

winfr C: D: / n * .docx / n * .xlsx / n * .pptx

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Rules for recovering Windows files in segment mode

Segment mode works just like the default mode. However, only / r is used here instead of / n. Suppose you want to recover all deleted mp3 file in segment mode. In this case you have to write:

winfr C: D: / r / n * .mp3

Rules for recovering Windows files in signature mode

The signature mode works a bit differently than the other two modes. It is more efficient to find certain types of files. In this mode / x specifies the signature mode and / y: specifies the file type or group. Following are the file types and file groups as per Microsoft’s documentation:

• ASF: wma, wmv, asf
• JPEG: jpg, jpeg, jpe, jif, jfif, jfi
• MP3: mp3
• MPEG: mpeg, mp4, mpg, m4a, m4v, m4b, m4r, mov, 3gp, qt
• PDF: pdf
• PNG: png
• ZIP: zip, docx, xlsx, pptx, odt, ods, odp, odg, odi, odf, odc, odm, ott, otg, otp, ots, otc, oti, otf, oth

You can view this list at any time using the following command:

winfr / #

Suppose you want to save JPEG file to drive D on drive E. Then you have to write the commandঃ

winfr E: D: / x / y: JPEG

You can also add multiple file groups, e.g.

winfr E: D: / x / y: JPEG, PDF, ZIP

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Details about winfr

For more details on Windows File Recovery, visit: Microsoft’s official documentation page From You can also see a list of all commands by typing the following command:

winfr /?

You can also see the advanced options by typing the following command:

winfr /!

Windows File Recovery Tool is definitely a unique addition. However, the use of SSDs for faster file transfers and performance improvement is currently increasing at a significant rate. At the time, it was doubtful how effective the file recovery tool would be for hard drives alone.