<div class="text-justify"> Hello to all the members of this illustrious community, today I will share with you my article about the recovery of deleted documents from our storage units. </div>

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<div class="text-justify"> Nowadays the web offers us an endless number of technological tools that allow us to solve the difficulties that may arise in the computer area, there are so many problems that can be generated in this area, that the simple fact of trying to make a list of them is a problem. 
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Now, what is certain is that a very common problem that appears is when by some error caused by the computer or by the users' own accident we eliminate important files from our storage units, one of the software that we have to recover our eliminated information is PhotoRec.
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PhtoRec, is a free portable software that allows us to recover files that were intentionally or accidentally deleted from our storage units (USB memories, MicroSD cards, hard drives, etc...). From a very easy to use interface, this program allows us to recover all types of files such as Images, Videos, Documents, among others. </div>
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<center><strong> Among the main features of this software are the following: </strong></center>
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<li>Compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, DOS/Win9x operating systems. </li>
<li>It is portable, that is, it is not necessary to install it on your computer. </li>
<li>It has an excellent file system, it can recover information from almost all systems (FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem, HFS+).</li>
<li>It recognizes numerous file formats among which we can mention: ZIP, Office files, PDF, HTML, JPEG and various graphic formats. </li>

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<center><strong> The following is a step-by-step guide on how to use this software to recover deleted information. </strong></center>
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<center><strong> Step One. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> To start recovering your files you need to open the folder containing the software. </div>
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<center><strong> Step Two. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> Once the folder is opened we create a new folder, and we will name it Recovered Files. (You can give it the name of your preference). </div>
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<center><strong> Step Three. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> Then run the software by double-clicking on the photorec_win.exe application. </div>
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<center><strong> Step Four. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> Once inside the program interface you can view the internal or external storage drives that are connected to the computer, which can be used for file recovery. </div>
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<center><strong> Step Five. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> Then we select the unit to which the file recovery will be performed, once selected we press the Enter key. (For this example I will take a USB Memory). </div>
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<center><strong> Step Six. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> When we select the unit, the software will show us the data concerning the selected unit. </div>
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<center><strong> Step Seven. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> Then we press Enter again, and it will show us the screen where it will ask us what type of files we want to recover. The first option is for Linux files and the second for Windows files and other operating systems. (For this example we will select option number 2). We give Enter. </div>
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<center><strong> Step Eight. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> Next it will show us the screen that indicates us in that space of the disk I want to look for the information that will be recovered. It shows us again two options, the first option indicates us that it will look for only in the available space of our storage unit and the second option indicates us that it will look for in all the storage unit. (For this example we will select the option number 2). </div>
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<center><strong> Step Nine. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> Once the option is selected, press Enter, in the next screen we will be asked in which folder we want to save the recovered files, there we locate and select with Enter the folder Recover Files that we created in step two. </div>
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<center><strong> Step Ten. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> Once we select the folder, the following screen will appear, where we will only type the letter "C" in capital letters and the program will automatically start to recover the files, saving them in the folder created for this purpose. </div>
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<center><strong> Step Eleven. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> In this step you can check the progress of file recovery. (See image of Step Ten and Eleven). </div>
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<center><strong> Step Twelve. </strong></center>

<div class="text-justify"> Once the file recovery process is finished, we go to the folder created in Step two and we can see that a folder is created with the name "recup_dir.1", in this folder we will find all the recovered files that were in the storage unit and that were deleted intentionally or accidentally. </div>
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<center><strong>Reference Consulted</strong></center>
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https://www.wondershare.net/ad/es/data-recovery.html
https://es.easeus.com/deleted-recovery/recover-deleted-files-from-hard-disk.html

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