Smart Data Recovery can recover deleted data that were stored on hard drives or other internal and external storage devices like USB drives. This program supports FAT and NTFS partitions.
When you delete files or folders, the data are not immediately removed from the hard drive. The hard disk space that was occupied by the deleted data is, in fact, indicated as free, and Windows may overwrite it with new data.
However, until the free space is not overwritten with new data, you can restore the data stored therein and erased. Therefore it is not always possible to recover deleted data, but it's worth it give it a try.
The first thing to do is to download Smart Data Recovery from the website.
After having installed the application, select the drive in which the file you lost had been stored and click the Browse button.
At this point, you can navigate among the folders of the partition and the files you see are those that have been deleted from your computer. To recover a deleted file or folder, put a check mark next to its name and click the Restore button at the top.
In case you can not click on the Browse button in the main screen, after selecting the drive, click the Find button. Enter the name of the deleted file you want to recover and click the Find button to retrieve it.
Smart Data Recovery also allows you to erase a file or folder on your computer so that it will be unrecoverable with Smart Data Recovery or other similar applications. To do this, after selecting the file or folder, simply click the Delete button at the top.