Can you recover a word document deleted directly that has not passed first through recycle bin?

Answer 1

Normally, unless very large (or your bin is very small), files go into the recycle bin upon deletion.

If your file is not in the recycle bin, it may still be recoverable - using something like Norton Systemworks - provided it wasn't securely deleted (deleted from disk, then nonsense files written in several passes over the space it occupied).

Good luck

Answer 2

First of all, when you delete any file, it goes DIRECTLY into the recycle bin. Now the files stay in recycle bin until you choose to empty it. So if you deleted a file and haven't emptied your recycle bin, chances are that the file is still there. In order to recover it, open your recycle bin, find and highlight the file, right click it, click restore, and it will come back to that exact directory where it was removed from. Hope this helps, but remember if you empty your recycle bin, recovering any file that was in there is impossible. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

If you havent emptied out the recycle bin then you can go in there and right click and click restore. It will go back on the desktop

Answer 4

You can use the search function....search for a phrase that is unique to the document and if the area it was stored in hasn't been overwritten you may get lucky.