How to Recover Deleted Orphaned JPG Files

An orphaned JPEG file is a JPEG (picture) file that is not associated to any one program. Regardless of its file associations, a deleted JPEG file can be recovered through the use of recovery freeware. These are free programs that can seemingly reverse time to undelete software and files that you had previously removed from your hard drive. You should have your JPEG file(s) back in just a few minutes.

Things You'll Need

• File recovery software such as NTFS Undelete or Undelete

Instructions

1. Click on a page below in Resources.

2. Click on the "Download" button to download a file for a recovery program.

3. Double click on the installation file. Follow the onscreen instructions to install the program.

4. Open the program and choose the letter of the drive that contained the orphaned JPEG file.

5. Click on the JPEG to be restored.

6. Press the "Undelete" button.

References

• Diskeeper: Undelete

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• Diskeeper: Undelete
• NTFS Undelete