[Full Guidance] Recover Pictures from Hard Drive

To help Windows users recover pictures from hard drive, this article will talk about 4 basic methods and a professional pictures recovery tool to retrieve the pictures from hard drive.

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By Tina / Updated on July 24, 2024

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Is it possible to recover pictures from hard drive?

Generally, if one person deletes some pictures from a hard drive, they may not need them anymore. But there can be some special cases: some needed pictures are accidentally deleted when the users clean up the hard disk, the hard disk is attacked by the virus, the computer breaks down due to power off, etc.

When people delete pictures by accident, they may want to recover photos from the computer hard drive. In order to restore the deleted pictures, you can refer to the methods shared in the next part.  

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How to recover deleted pictures from computer hard drive

It is a heartbreaking mistake for a user to delete the wanted pictures. In this part, you can learn some basic methods to recover them.

✦ Method 1. Restore deleted pictures from Recycle Bin

When if you delete the files using the conventional method, you can try to find the deleted pictures in Recycle Bin, because the deleted files will be moved to the Recycle Bin for about 30 days. You can turn to the next methods if you cannot find the lost pictures.

Recycle Bin Restore

 ✦ Method 2. Restore the photos with File History

File History can help Windows users to recover lost files, including documents, songs, pictures, and so on. If you have backed up the pictures, this method can easily recover photos from hard drive.

Step 1. Input “File History” in the Windows research bar and press “Enter”.

Open File History

Step 2. Find and select the target pictures and click the green “Recovery” button.

Restore From File History

Step 3. In the new interface, click “Replace the file in the destination”.

Replace File

 ✦ Method 3. Recover the lost pictures in the Previous Versions

How to recover deleted pictures from hard drive? Another method to recover the lost pictures is turning them into the previous version. Lets see how to do it.

Step 1. Open File Explorer and find the folder that stored the lost pictures before.

Step 2. Right-click the folder, then click “Properties”, “Previous Versions”, “choose the latest version” and “Restore” in order.

Previous Version Restore

✦ Method 4. Run the Backup and Restore function

If you have backed up the deleted pictures, the Backup and Restore function also can help you to regain the lost pictures.

Step 1. Open the Control Panel, then click “System and Security” and “Backup and Restore (Windows 7)”.

Backup And Restore

Step 2. In the following interface, click ”Restore my files”.

Restore My Files

Step 3. Click “Browse for files”, then choose the target pictures you want to recover, click “Next”.

Click Next

Step 4. Choose the destination folder to save the recovered pictures, click “Restore”.

Restore

A full-featured data recovery expert for Windows11/10/8/7

Losing important pictures may affect your mood at work, and even your life. If the above methods can do less for you, a third-party data recovery software- AOMEI FastRecovery may recover different types of files, including pictures, documents, music, videos, Email, and so on.

This tool can be used on 11/10/8/7 and all Windows Server systems. Besides, it supports NTFS, eXFAT32, FAT32, and other file systems. Accompanying the clear interface and detailed guidance, you can easily learn all the functions it provides. No matter how the files are lost, this tool can recover them from the devices like HDD, SSD, SD cards, USB, etc.  

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Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI FastRecovery. Choose the exact partition or disk where your data lost and click Scan.

Select drive

Step 2. Then, the recovery tool start to scan and search. lt will execute the “Quickly Scan" first for finding your deleted data fast, and then execute the “Deep Scan" for searching other lost data.

Scan

Step 3. Once the scan is completed, all deleted files, recycle bins and other missing files will be displayed. Please select the file you would like to recover and then click "Recover".

Choose files

Step 4. Then, select a folder path to save your recovered files.

Save the recovered data

Step 5. Wait patiently for this process of recovering ends.

Final line

When you lose some important pictures, you may want to recover pictures from hard drive. This post can satisfy you with 5 methods. To recover deleted pictures with ease, AOMEI FastRecovery can be a suitable choice.

Tina
Tina · Staff Editor
Tina is an English editor of AOMEI Technology. She has a positive attitude and full of energy. On her work, she always keeps thinking to figure out the solutions for users' problems, and writes the answers so that can help someone. In her daily life, she likes to sing, watch TV and sleep. She always being grateful and happy to all the things happened and all the people encountered.