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In trying to keep your Windows PC clean, it's easy for you (or your cleaning software) to get overzealous. Sooner or later, you're going to delete something you meant to keep, and salvaging data from beyond the Recycle Bin can be a challenge.

That wayward file is not necessarily gone forever, though. Windows machines do not permanently erase data until new files google backup android overwrite the space on the hard drive allotted for deleted ones. So if your deletion was recent, you stand an excellent chance of recovering your files. The easiest solution is to arm yourself with data recovery software.

Whether you've lost data due to system failure or carelessness, Stellar Phoenix is one of your best options for getting your files back. The program is both easy to use and robust, letting you recover entire folders and directories, or search for one file at a time.

Features: In addition to recovering documents, images, music and video files, the program can also restore archives (such as ZIP files) and databases. Business users may also be interested in Stellar Phoenix Pro, which can create a safe, cloned version of a hard drive called an "image" to make restoring infected files safer.

If you need professional-grade data recovery on a home-user budget, consider R-Studio. This program lets you recover files, either individually or in batches, with either a user-friendly search feature or expert-level coding.

Features: R-Studio offers everything a home user needs in a data recovery service. You can search for deleted documents, media and directories, and restore them with just a few clicks, both on your computer's hard drive or on secondary storage devices like thumb drives. If data has been very badly damaged, you can even dive in headfirst with a text-and-hexadecimal editor, which allows savvy users to repair flaws in a piece of data's coding. If Windows itself has been damaged, you can use R-Studio to hunt for files via a bootable USB drive.

While data recovery programs are fairly self-explanatory, the process can be a tricky business, and it's good to have a resource disk fragmentation if things go wrong (well, wrong-er). The best companies will have tech support available by phone — 24/7, if possible, as the odds of your big data emergency happening during normal business hours are slim. If not, see if the company offers live chat, email addresses, website query forms or active social media pages.