Windows 10: How to restore work in a file that was lost?

Using Microsoft Word 2010. Typing two hours. Screen turns white and message says something like Word is not responding. Lost two hours of work. How to restore file? When reopening file version without most recent work is not there.


I "saved" every step of the way. This is the second time this happened to this file.

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File Lost!!

I am in deep shit, I lost a File on accident that my father had been working on for 3 months *Bang Head :banghead:and its been emptyed from the recycle bin*Bang Head :banghead:*Bang Head :banghead:. I have done system restore point as far back as I could go but the file still did not apear in the documents folder. I have download several Recovery tools and none of them can find it. Surely someone here know of someway or some mircle programe that can recover it. Please anyone help.*Cry :cry:

 

Recovering Lost Files

Hi, Shaun.

Thank you for posting in Community. I understand your concern and we will try to assist you in the best way we can.

Before we proceed, I would like you to provide the information below:

Can you find the files now, if you go to windows.old?

I would suggest that you perform Power Drain and check you can find the files and folder that you have lost. To do so follow the steps below:

• Unplug the charger and remove the battery of your laptop, if using a desktop remove the power cord.
• Press and hold the Power button for 30sec
• Plug the charger/power cord and restart system

If you can't find a file on your computer or you accidently modified or deleted a file, you can restore it from a backup (if you're using Windows backup) or you can try to restore it from a previous version. Previous versions are copies of files
and folders that Windows automatically saves as part of a restore point. Previous versions are sometimes referred to as shadow copies.

Hope this information helps.

 

Lost a lot of files, need help getting them back

Shadow Copies usually refers to Restore Points. For now, if you can, recover everything Recuva can, including the "shadow copies". One step at a time. If they are, in fact, Restore Points, there are ways to "explore" the Restore Point and extract the files. I do not want to get into the nuts and bolts of that at this point. Get the Recuva done first! Stop the bleeding! To an ext drive.