How to Recover Deleted Word Document from Computer with Freeware?

About Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. It is a component of the Microsoft Office system; it is also sold as a standalone product and included in Microsoft Works Suite. Beginning with the 2003 version, the branding was revised to emphasize Word's identity as a component within the Office suite on PC versions; Microsoft began calling it Microsoft Office Word instead of merely Microsoft Word. The 2010 version appears to be branded as Microsoft Word, once again. The current versions are Microsoft Word 2010.

Why do you need to recover word document?

  • Your computer crashed and you lost your Microsoft Word files.
  • You deleted a Word file that you need to recover.
  • You lost a Word file due to a virus infection or other system failure.

How to recover a Microsoft Word document depends on how the document was lost in the first place. If the document exists but is damaged or cannot be opened in Microsoft Word then you need to repair it. If it has been lost or deleted then you need to recover it.

Word document recovery freeware

EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is a Microsoft Word recovery tool that can recover Word documents that have been deleted or overwritten. It can restore corrupt DOC, DOCX files, and recover deleted or lost Word documents from formatted or badly damaged hard disks.

Feature:

  • Able to recover Microsoft Word 6.0/95/97/2000/2003/2007/2010 documents.
  • Able to recover deleted and overwritten Word documents.
  • Supports all versions of FAT and NTFS and regenerates files even from lost, deleted partitions and from reformatted disks in Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/Windows 7.
  • Preview Word files feature.
  • Autosave allows continuing recovery, terminated at any stage.

To recover delete or lost Word document files, follow these steps:

1. Click the "Deleted File Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

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2. You can see the list of all logical volumes found on your computer.

3. Choose one of them and press the "NEXT" button to undelete Word documents (if you are familiar with file system details, you can change "Option" before pressing the "NEXT" button).

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4. Data Recovery Wizard will read file system on selected volume.

5. This step will launch the Building directory interface to search the deleted files.

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6. After this scanning is finished, you'll see file/folder tree.

7. You can click "Find file by name" or "Search files" to see search office document and right click to preview the word file.

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8. Select the file or folder that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button.

9. Select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

Note: You can also recover lost Word files from Raw folders.

If the Word files are stored in the volume which you formatted, deleted or damaged, you should use the "Complete Recovery" or "Partition Recovery" to recover Word document files.

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