How to Recover Permanently Deleted Pictures from Laptop Easily

Scenario

Just like this user, we can delete documents, pictures, videos and so on from our laptop or desktop by accident. It is easy to restore the deleted photos if they still lie in the Recycle Bin. What if they are permanently deleted and can’t be found in the Recycle Bin any more? How to recover permanently deleted pictures from PC? You may read on.

2 ways to recover permanently deleted pictures from laptop

First, you should stop using your laptop immediately after data loss. Otherwise, the deleted files will be overwritten. Then, you can use one of the following solutions to retrieve your lost pictures/photos:

Solution 1: recover permanently deleted pictures with a backup

If you are running Windows 10 and have made a backup with File History, then you can learn how to recover deleted photos from laptop in Windows 10 below. If you are running Windows 7, please turn to how to recover permanently deleted files in Windows 7.

1. Tap the Search button on the taskbar and type “file history” in the search box. Select Restore your files with File History from the search results.

2. In the pop-up window, choose what you want to restore by clicking your way through the libraries, folders, and files until you spot the pictures you’d like to restore.

3. Move forward or backward in time to find the version you’d like to restore.

4. Click the Restore button to restore your desired version of the pictures.

Note: If Windows notices a naming conflict with the items you’re trying to restore, you should choose how to handle the conflict—Replace the files in the destination folder, Skip these files, or Let me decide for each file.

5. Close File History.

Solution 2: recover permanently deleted pictures using photo recovery software

If you haven’t got a backup, you will have no choice but to seek help from professional photo recovery software to get your permanently deleted pictures/photos back.

MyRecover is such a powerful tool which enables you to recover photos, videos, audio, Office documents, folders, emails, and other file types from your Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, or Windows Server computers.

These steps describe how to recover permanently deleted photos from hard drives using MyRecover.

Step 1. Install and run MyRecover on your PC. Then select the partition that includes your needed pictures before data loss. Then click Start Scan.

Step 2. Search your desired image files or wait to see all the deleted and other missing files after Quick Scan and Deep Scan.

Step 3. Go to the Deleted Files/Other Missing Files folder, and click Recover x files to restore your selected pictures. Please save these recovered image files in a new path.

Best picture/photo backup software for free🔥

You may discover that it costs less time and energy to recover permanently deleted pictures from laptop with a backup than without a backup. You get the importance of performing backups regularly. In addition to Windows inbuilt backup tools, I’d like to recommend a more advanced backup utility—AOMEI Backupper Standard to you. 

It offers you four types of backup: System/Disk/Partition/File Backup, which can meet your different needs. With the Schedule feature, you can set your backup tasks to run daily/weekly/monthly. You are also allowed to do incremental and differential backups to improve the backup efficiency. What’s more, it’s free! Just download this freeware to have a try. 

To backup your pictures/photos, you can:

1. Perform file backup to create an image file for the pictures/photos. When they are deleted mistakenly, you can restore them from the backup image.

2. Perform file sync to copy them to another place. You can copy them back directly if they are lost in the original place.

To sum up

Now you know how to recover permanently deleted pictures from laptop easily. Either a backup or a specialized data recovery utility can give you a hand. AOMEI Backupper can not only be used as photo backup software but also free SSD migration tool. Don’t hesitate to try it out!