How to Restore Deleted Video Files on a Computer

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews. Today, I'm going to show you how to restore deleted video files on a computer. Let's go to our computer. And I have on my desktop, a file called Butterfly. I open it up, you'll see it's a video of a butterfly. Now, before I delete this, I'm going to show you the program that we need. We're going to use a program called Restoration, and that's what's going to restore it after it's deleted. Let's open up our Web browser, and the website we're going to go to is snapfiles.com. Scroll over a little bit, and we're going to search for Restoration. Now, it's usually going to be the first result. Just click on Restoration. It's a free program. Then scroll down and hit Download. Now, I already have it downloaded and installed, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to delete this file permanently. It's going to verify that I want to permanently delete it. And then I'm going to run Restoration as an administrator to show you how you can get that file back. Now, with Restoration open, we want to scan Drive C. So with Drive C selected, we click the Search Deleted Files, and you'll see in this list, we have Butterfly.wmv. I'm going to select it, and I'm going to click on Restore by Copying. And I'm going to copy this back to my desktop, and I'm going to click Save. Now, the author of this software recommends that we save it to a different drive, but I'm just going to click Yes. And then here is our Butterfly video restored from deletion. My name's Dave Andrews, and I've just showed you how to restore video files on a computer."