A data recovery solution quickly becomes essential when handling many folders or files on your computer. Between images, documents, videos, audio files, etc., some may have sentimental value or be important to you from a professional point of view in particular.
It is because we are never safe from a crash or the accidental deletion of a file, that it is important to have this “data recovery” solution at hand. In some cases, it is a question of recovering documents such as Word files, which have been accidentally deleted or not saved by mistake.
In this specific case, a solution like Tenorshare 4DDiG can quickly help you find and restore your precious files. Especially when there is an urgency to quickly deliver a report or other important professional document.
How to Recover Deleted or Unsaved Word File?
Let’s see 2 methods to allow you to recover Word files you deleted, forgot to backup, or even experienced a crash when using Word.
Method 1: Recover Word documents with 4DDiG
Tenorshare 4DDiG is a data recovery software that works on both Windows and macOS. The recovery process is carried out in 3 simple steps and is accessible to all, without the need for special computer knowledge on PC or Mac
First of all, download Tenorshare 4DDiG on your computer and install it on the hard disk which is not the one where the data is to be recovered, it is important!
Step 1: Select a location to scan
When launching the software, you will have access to a list of active locations on your computer. That is to say, hard drives and media such as USB keys or memory cards if you have a card reader connected to your machine.
You can also do advanced repairs of corrupted data, such as corrupted files such as images or videos. You can also resort to advanced repair for your system data if it is down.
- Select the location to scan to start data recovery
- Then click on the “ Start ” button
- Choose the type of files you want to search and recover, or leave All File Types as default and click the “Scan All File Types” button at the bottom.
Step 2: Wait for the scanning process and preview the files
The scan process can take a long time depending on the size of the hard drive and the amount of data to be scanned. Hence the interest in selecting the type of file to recover (documents, photos, videos, audio, and others).
Once the search process is underway, you can switch to the “File View” by clicking on it at the top left. By default, you are on the “Tree View” corresponding to the tree structure of the files that are recovered during the analysis.
You can see the different types of documents and their number that are being recovered. At the top, you see where you are in the process with the number of files found and the time remaining. You can also pause or stop the current scan.
Step 3: Select the files and save them
You can directly access the deleted or unsaved Word documents you are interested in to view the recovered documents. Then you just have to select them and click on the “Recover” button at the bottom right and save them in a new location.
You can also choose to recover several complete folders including the different files found.
Method 2: Recover from AutoRecover
Microsoft Office has an automatic recovery function, but you must first activate the automatic backup of your documents via the following path:
Step 1
Go to File > Options > Save
Then check (unless already done) the option “Save automatic recovery information every x minutes” Put the desired duration
Check the functionality below (unless already done) ” Keep the last version automatically recovered if I close without saving”
2nd step
Then you just have to click on the File tab in Word and on “Information” at the top left to access the recovery of a file that has not been saved. You will access it from ” Manage document “in the right window”
Step 3
Click on it to reach the recovery of files that will be listed and click on the document(s) to be recovered.
Note: You will also get a notification when opening Word, informing you of unsaved files, and if you wish to recover them before working on a new document.
4DDiG Data Recovery – Your one stop solution for data recovery
4DDiG Data Recovery is a data recovery software that allows you to restore all types of files lost or accidentally deleted following various problems such as a power cut, a system crash, etc…
Here are the advantages offered by 4DDig Data Recovery :
Recover over a thousand file types
4DDig is able to recover more than 1000 different types of files on your computers, whether they are document files;
- doc,
- xls,
- pdf…
audio formats such as:
- wav,
- mp3,
video files;
- avi,
- mpeg,
- mp4 etc.
It supports the following hard disk formats:
- NTFS,
- FAT,
- APFS,
- HFS,
- HFS X…
This depends on your computer (Mac or PC)
Deleted File Recovery
If you accidentally delete files and put them in the Trash, even emptying it you can recover these files directly from the direct recovery function from Trash on 4DDiG.
Formatted drive recovery
Quick formatting a medium such as a hard disk, a USB key, or even an SD card gives you the possibility of recovering your erased data using 4DDiG. Simply avoid overwriting data over your media, to achieve maximum recovery rate.
Recovery of a lost partition
A lost partition that no longer reactivates is still active to enable data recovery. Here again, 4DDiG can be of great help to you, even if your device no longer displays the letter assigned to it on your computer.
External Device Recovery
4DDiG supports external media such as classic hard drives or SSDs, SD cards, micro SD cards, etc. USB keys or devices with built-in storage media.
Repair damaged photos and videos
In the event of a system crash or power cut, it may happen that your files such as images or videos have been altered and are unfortunately no longer readable on your computer.
This is all the more the case at the time of a transfer or a recording. In this case, 4DDiG can help you repair these files and recover the essential or additional damaged files.
Conclusion
It is essential to have data recovery software on hand because we are never safe from an accident or problems beyond our control; power failure, system crash, etc.
4DDiG is therefore the ideal solution to meet your needs. Easy to use, you will recover your files in just 3 steps, and at the end of the process, you just have to view your files and thus restore only those you want.
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