Microsoft Excel is a popular software application that is part of MS office. It is used by people all over the world for the purpose of data manipulation, data analysis and sorting. However, people often lose their excel files because of a wrong deletion, system crash, virus attack or any other reasons. And they always forget to make backups. Once the important excel files are lost, they might think that they have no chance to retrieve it.

We understand that anyone can lose their important excel files at any time. But in fact, the XLSX/XLS files you deleted is not lost forever, you just unable to access it.

We know when a file is accidentally deleted from your computer, your operation may be to select the file, then right click on the mouse to delete or press the delete button on the keyboard. Congratulations, if you’re doing it like this, you can find it in the recycle bin and right click on the mouse to restore it. And you can find it on the original folder where it deleted from.

But sometimes you permanently delete the file by pressing shift + delete at the same time on keyboard, the deleted file is not found in the recycle bin. Where do the lost files go?

When we permanently deleted data from the disk, in its storage space, the operating system only mark a “deleted” sign on the data, and also marks the data occupied disk space as “idle”. At this time, although we can’t see this file, it still stay there. As long as no new files are created or new data is written within the storage space, the deleted data will remain there.

Therefore, we recommend that you do not save any data or write new data to the partition or device where the excel file is located after you accidentally delete it, and then use the powerful data recovery software – Bitwar Data Recovery to rescue the accidentally deleted excel file as soon as possible.

Bitwar Data Recovery software is totally clean and safe, besides, it is user-friendly, because it doesn’t require any data recovery knowledge or experience to operate the software. More importantly, it is very powerful and effectively, it supports to recover data for sudden deletion, formatting, hard drive corruption, virus attack, system crash under different situations.