How to Retrieve Erased Photos from HP Laptop?

Think of this situation: You own HP notebook in which you have stored important documents, photos, videos, music and many more. One day you switched on your computer to do some work. But before you could start your work, you observed that the desktop is loaded with many unwanted folders. Therefore to make it clean and look good, you selected few folders and erased them using “Shift + Delete” keys. Soon after deletion, you realized that you have accidentally erased a folder in which you have stored precious photos of your childhood. At that moment you may not understand what to do and also one question may scroll in your mind on how to recover deleted pictures from HP laptop?

However don’t be sad!!! Read this article once. It will definitely help you to resolve your issue. HP laptop is a good choice to store pictures, videos and other files that are precious to you. However, sometimes you may make a mistake and accidentally delete your pictures while viewing or editing them. Fortunately, using the “Backup and Restore” functions included in HP laptop, you can recover files with the click of a button. But in case backup is not created, this option does not work and you will not be able to restore your photos even you need them very badly.

What are the reasons that cause deletion of pictures from HP Notebook?

• Deleting large sized photos: In case you delete photos from HP computer whose size is larger than the holding capacity of Recycle Bin, then the deleted photos does not get stored in Recycle Bin making you lose those photos
• Deletion of photos from Antivirus software: Sometimes you might run Antivirus software to remove viruses from your HP laptop. However if the pictures stored in HP laptop is infected with the viruses, then Antivirus software may erase them without providing warning message
• Erasing files from Command Prompt: Even though Windows OS has graphical user interface, few users have the habit of using command Prompt function. If you mistakenly delete important photos using this command, then photos will bypass Recycle Bin and will be removed permanently from HP laptop

One good thing to know is your HP laptop's hard drive retains the deleted photos to certain extent of time. It keeps the data of the deleted photo intact until a new file occupies the space and overwrites it. Hence it is highly recommended that you avoid using HP laptop unless and until you recover deleted pictures.

Photo Recovery from HP laptop:

As there is no manual way to recover permanently deleted photos from HP laptop, it is recommended to use software named Yodot Photo Recovery. After using this software your concern for lost photos will be ended because the photos don’t remain lost anymore. This photo recovery software has been loaded with all the necessary features which not only help to recover photos, videos and audio files, but also other files that were stored in HP laptop. It facilitates flexibility to users by allowing them to differentiate recovered files according to date, size, name, file extension etc. You could recover photo formats such as JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, PSD, TIF, TIFF, WEBP, IMG, EXIF, ARW, SR2, ORF, MRW, 3FR, PEF, RAW, X3F,RAF, KDC, K25 etc. without altering their original quality on Windows OS. In addition, you may even view recovered photos to ensure that you have selected right one or not.

Steps to recover photos from HP laptop:

• First of all download the software and install it to your HP laptop
• Once the installation process gets completed, run it to start the recovery of photos
• You may now find two option on the main screen which are “Deleted Photo Recovery” and “Lost Photo Recovery”
• Choose “Deleted Photo Recovery” to move further and select the drive from where you want to recover photos
• Now you can see the software scanning the drive that has been selected for recovery
• Choose the file types to be recovered otherwise click on “Skip” to select all files by default
• Make your selection to recover photos by using two view types which are “Data View” and “File Type View”
• Preview recovered photos and then select the location to store it

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