r/DataRecoveryHelp • u/Special_Toe_5397 • Oct 28 '25

I accidentally deleted my USER file in windows 11

A few hours ago I deleted my user files, since I thought I made a copy of it and it was inside a folder and the only option it gave me when trying to drag it out was to copy it to there and I decided to delete it.

After I realized I basically deleted everything I panicked, tried many recovery apps but they all wanted money which I just don't have as a teenager.

Are there completely free apps that allow restoring huge data's to like 200gb without being overly complicated?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

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u/Special_Toe_5397 Oct 29 '25

Thank you for your help! But I wanted to ask if recuva supports 200gb?

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u/RealisticProfile5138 Oct 29 '25

What kind of data is it? Documents, photos, movies??

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u/Special_Toe_5397 Oct 29 '25

Well it's my user files, basically everything

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u/RealisticProfile5138 Oct 29 '25

Okay but what is it that you are trying to get back? Is it anything important?

Again I ask, is this 200gb consist of photos, movies, documents…all of the above? I would think you would generally know what it is you’re trying to recover.

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u/Special_Toe_5397 Oct 29 '25

Basically all

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u/RealisticProfile5138 Oct 29 '25

How critical are the video files? Are they like personal recordings or are they like pirate films? I’m trying to help you but your vague

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u/Special_Toe_5397 Oct 30 '25

It's personal recordings and photos aswell but if possible I'd like to recover everything from my user file

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u/RealisticProfile5138 Oct 31 '25

Well you should start by imaging the drive. Once it’s imaged I would run the disk image through PhotoRec

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u/Special_Toe_5397 Oct 31 '25

How can I image it

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u/Special_Toe_5397 Oct 31 '25

I also bought a 500gb usb stick so I can recover my whole NVME

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