If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

If you accidentally overwrite an important PowerPoint business presentation, you may think you've lost your data and hours of hard work. Windows 7, however, includes a Volume Shadow Copy feature that ...

Since Windows doesn’t offer a direct way to open these show copies or restore points, we will use third-party software— Shadow Explorer. This program can read all the System Restore Points and display ...

Have you ever been in a place where you’ve been working on an Excel file for hours, and suddenly all of your work has been lost? It might be due to an unexpected power loss or a system crash, ...

If your file has been truly deleted and then overwritten, the sad news is that you probably won't be able to retrieve it. However, there are two theoretical methods that seem promising, so perhaps the ...

OS: WinXP Pro<BR><BR>Boss did a "Save" instead of a "Save As", and overwrote an important (to her) Excel file.<BR><BR>As far as I know, their is no way to recover that data.<BR><BR>Am I ...

With that $30 price tag in my mind’s eye, I went into my PCTools File Recover hands-on thinking that it would be just anotherover-priced undelete utility. Ten minutes in, I was thinking “ByGrabthar’s ...

Are overwritten files really, truly gone? Or could some snoop, given enough money and resources, get that data back? In my story last week, Surviving a home data disaster: How Shirley got her files ...

On the file servers of the domain NWZ there is a service running that takes so called "Shadow Copies" of the stored files twice a day and puts them in an extra storage area. With this "Volume Shadow ...