Help Needed: How to Recover Permanently Deleted Files on Windows 11?

Lucascobo  When you delete a file on Windows 11, it is not immediately gone from the hard drive. Instead, the file is typically moved to the Recycle Bin, which acts as a temporary storage area. This allows you to recover the file if you change your mind or accidentally delete it. The file remains in the Recycle Bin until you either manually empty it or it exceeds the Recycle Bin’s storage limit, at which point older files may be permanently deleted. During this time, the file is still occupying space on your disk but is no longer visible in its original location.

However, even after permanently deleting a file from the Recycle Bin, the data is not immediately erased from your hard drive. Windows simply marks the space that the file occupied as available for new data, but the actual content of the file remains until it is overwritten by new files. This means that with the right recovery software, it is often possible to recover deleted files on Windows 11 unless the space has been reused. Overwriting or using secure deletion methods can ensure that deleted files are truly irrecoverable.