Earlier we have covered how to securely and permanently delete files on Windows 10 machines. While doing so, if you have mistakenly deleted some important files, then you’re in luck! Microsoft now has an official tool to recover files on Windows 10 machines and in this piece, I’m going to tell you how to use it.
How to Use Windows File Recovery
- After you install the tool, open the Command Prompt as an administrator.
- Type “winfr” on the Command Prompt window and press “Enter”.
For instance, we used the tool to recover some .jpeg files from a source C: drive to the recovery folder in D: drive. Here are the steps we followed to carry out the recovery process.
Note: Here, the “/n *.JPG” is the filter for the tool that lets it know the file type it needs to recover. If you want to recover .png files, type “n/ *.PNG” instead.
Now, the time taken by the tool to recover the files will depend on the size of your source folder. In our test, the tool was able to recover 328 .jpeg files in 18 minutes from a 128GB SSD source drive that contains around 97GB worth of files.
