How to Undelete Temporary Files After Defragmentation

Defragmenting your hard drive is a process in which files are re-situated so that the system can find and read them more easily, which can speed up your computer's hard drive. Sometimes during a disk defrag, temporary files can be deleted. If you need to undelete these temporary files, you can use a data recovery program to retrieve the data and restore it to the hard drive. You can download many of these data recovery programs on the Internet for free.

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  Download a data recovery program, such as File Recovery 4, TOKIWA or Uneraser, for free (see Resources). Once you have installed the program, run it on your computer.

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  Choose the "C:/" drive from the drive selection menu when prompted. The program will scan the hard drive for deleted temporary files and display the data in a list.

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  Choose the temporary files you want to recover and click on the "Restore" button. The temporary files will return to the hard drive.