Recover Shift Deleted Files on Windows 11/10/8/7 [Full Guide]

Alina
4 min readAug 23, 2024

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Summary:- This post explains how to use BLR Data Recovery software to recover deleted files on shifts. Moreover, after reading this article you will understand why you cannot find shifted deleted files from the recycle bin.

Have you ever received a warning message on your Windows PC that says “Are you sure you want to permanently delete these items?” Clicking the Shift + Del keys for deleting files on your PC typically leads to this.

Most of you might just press Yes to delete them; but, do you know why all the shifted deleted files cannot be recovered in the recycle bin when you want to access these files once more? In addition to that, do you know how to get back these shifted deleted files? Should you be interested, just keep reading.

Difference between delete and shift delete

Usually, your files pass on to the Recycle Bin when you select a file on your Windows computer and click the Del key or right-click on it and select Delete. Recycle Bin will temporarily store your deleted files. Browse to Recycle Bin for access to the deleted files afterwards or retrieve them back where they were originally kept.

But when you delete a file using the Shift Delete key combo, File Explorer or the Recycle Bin doesn’t display the shifted deleted files anymore. Windows OS removes those files from the searchable index of the storage disk, thus your data are not accessible and cannot be displayed as usual.

Don’t panic, though; the wiped out files still remain on your Windows hard disk yet they are simply hidden in Windows. Windows OS has just suggested that part of your hard disk other data could use. You still have a great chance to retrieve wiped out shift data till the highlighted part has been rebuilt.

So, stop all writing activities on the drive holding the deleted files before beginning the shift of deleted data recovery.

How to Recover Shift Deleted Files

As said before, you still have the possibility to recover your deleted shift data. Typically, the following techniques will help you to access the deleted shift files:

Method 1: Recover Shift Deleted Files Using Recovery Software

Using a professional file recovery tool is the best method to get shifted deleted files on Windows 11/10/8/7 recovered. After cleaning the recycle bin, BLR Data Recovery Tool ranks among the best software that can assist with successfully restoring deleted data. On Windows PC, it also can recover deleted images, movies, audio, office documents, and much more.

How can one recover deleted Windows shift files? Just follow the instructions below:

Step 1: Launch BLR Data Recovery Tool, download, install free.

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Step 2: Choose the omitted file type and location. Click the “Scan” button at the beginning scanning.

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Step 3: Review the files once they have been discovered to find whether or not they are recoverable. Click “Recover” to save the files onto the desired folder.

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Method 2: Recover deleted file with Windows File History.

File History is an additional helpful feature included in Windows 11/10/8. It serves the purpose for users to quickly backup data. Transferring all of the files contained in the Music, Photo, Video, and Documents folders goes to File History. You can quickly and easily restore a copy of the files if you clicked on File History before their shift deletion.

Let us walk through recovering shift deleted files on Windows step by step using File History:

Step 1: Go to the folder holding earlier kept shifted deleted files.

Step 2: Click History located in the top Home tab item.

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Step 3: Choose the files you wish to recover and then click the green recover button.

Step 4: The shifted deleted files will come back to their place of origin once you click Restore. Should you choose to save the files at a different location instead, right-click the Restore button and choose Restore.

Method 3: Using Windows Backup and Restore, recover deleted files.

If your PC runs a previous-generation Windows operating system (Windows 7). Backup and Restore is going to help you should it be turned on in order to retrieve deleted files in Windows 7. Recover shift information that was deleted from Window 7 by following steps:

Step 1: See System and Security > Backup and Restore (Windows 7).

Step 2: Click Save my files.

Step 3: Click Browse to locate the files. Look for and choose which shift deleted files you wish to restore.

Step 4: Choose Next. Indicate whether you want to restore the files to a specific folder or their original location. When done, click Restore.

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Alina

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