I accidentally deleted audio and video files by pressing delete option on my desktop while taking back up of songs and video clips. Since the deleted folder was carrying large amount of audios and videos, it has bypassed Recycle Bin. Please share your useful suggestions to recover deleted audio and video files.
Usually users save all media files like audio, video and picture files on computer hard drives and other external storage devices for various purposes. There are various types of music and videos that are used in day to day activities. If these media from any storage, then user will undergo massive loss. The most common way of losing audio and video files is by deletion. Top few reasons that could erase audio and video files from desktop hard disk or other storage devices are given below:
- While fiddling with menu, accidentally erasing audio and videos from phone camera or other multimedia devices
- Erasing audio and video file using command prompt from your Windows computer will permanently erase those files
- When trying to clear unwanted songs and videos clips, unintentionally clicking on 'Delete All' button will lead to delete entire set of files
- Deadly virus attack on storage device may corrupt its file system making entire data inaccessible
- Improper re-installation of operating system will clear songs and video clips from hard disk
- Accidentally formatting the storage device containing videos as well as audios will result in deletion of those files
- Files system corruption can also result in audio and video file deletion
Upon losing videos and audios from respective storage device, user may worry about it assuming that they cannot be recovered. However, in order to recover those deleted media files, you can choose reliable recovery software.
Distinct feature of deleted audio and video files:
Yodot Photo Recovery is amazing tool to
recover audio files and video files on Windows system. It can effectively retrieve audio file format (MP3, MIDI, M4b, WAV, RA, AMR, etc) and video file formats (AVI, MPEG, M4V, MOV, etc). This utility supports to recover all erased files from Fat16, FAT 32, ExtFAT, NTFS, ReFS and NTFS5 partition / drives. Apart from system hard disk, it can bring back deleted files from other storage devices like memory card, SSD drive, pen drive, external hard drive and many more drives. In addition to this, the application is compatible with all major Windows operating system namely Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
Steps to rescue deleted audio and video files:
- Download and install Yodot Photo Recovery tool on healthy system and launch it
- On main screen you will get two options i.e 'Deleted Photo Recovery' and 'Lost Photo Recovery'
- Select 'Deleted Photo Recovery' option to recover deleted songs and video clips
- Choose the drive from where audio and video files are erased
- Utility know scans selected hard drive and shows recoverable files from it
- Now select the file type or hit on 'Skip' option to select all files by default
- Allow the software to scan selected drive
- When scanning process ends, view retrieved files in 'Data View' or 'File Type View'
- Preview audio and video files listed in two view types and finally save them in desired destination location
Points to Remember:
- Back up important video files on regular basis
- Avoid abrupt removal of external devices while transferring video files on it
- To avoid virus infection, install good anti-virus
