How to Recover Deleted Videos on Windows 8?

 

Sometimes, you might accidentally delete the video files from Windows 8 PC's. It could be a very important collection of videos that you captured from your camera or smartphone. Unfortunately, you might also fail to maintain a backup of the videos on the Windows 8 computer, prior to deletion. At this point, deletion of video files due to any unexpected reasons proves disappointing.

Causes for loss of video files from the Windows 8 system:

• Accidental deletion: Unintendedly applying “shift+ delete” on valuable video files leads to permanent deletion on your Windows 8 system
• Unintentional formatting: Sometimes you may be forced to format the Windows 8 system hard drive or its partitions
• Anti-virus scan: At times video files in the Recycle Bin folder can be deleted by the anti-virus scanning software if the videos are severely corrupted.
• Virus Infection: This is one of the common reasons for the deletion of the videos. The virus enters the Windows 8 system through the internet when the user downloads video files from unauthorized websites or some USB devices connected to the Windows 8 system. Once the virus enters the system it will corrupt the video files in the hard drive. Finally, you will lose video files from the hard drive of the Windows 8 system.
• Third-party applications: You may use some anti-virus application for scanning your computer hard disk drive. During the scanning process antivirus, the tool may delete your virus-infected video files which are most important for you.

The perfect solution to recover videos from Windows 8

You can securely get back deleted Windows 8 videos by utilizing the award-winning application named Video File Recovery. It is built-in with eminent file recovery engine that scans and fetches the video files instantly. The software can identify almost all video file formats for restoration. Read more about restoring MPEG video files deleted from Windows 8 Recycle Bin.

Features of the Video Recovery Tool::

• Also capable to retrieve image, audio, documents, and other media files
• With the help of this utility, you can get back media files from a camcorder, mobile phones, USB flash drive, SSD, iPods, HDD, and many more. It can also retrieve video files from a GoPro, Canon, Nikon, and all the brands of the cameras
• Fully compatible with Windows 8 and all editions of Windows operating systems.
• Features a “Preview” option by which you can view the recovered video files before saving it
• It facilitates you with “Save Recovery Session” by this option you can resume the recovery process and need not to rescan the drive
• By the help of this tool, you can recover media files from a corrupted memory card

Steps to recover deleted videos from Windows 8:

Step 1: Download and install Video File Recovery software. After installation, select “Recover Files” from the main screen to recover the deleted video from Windows 8.

Step 2: Specify the Windows storage drive from where the videos got deleted. Hit on the Scan icon.

Figure 1: Main Screen

Step 3: Allow the software to complete the scan on the drive.

Figure 2: Scanning for video files

Step 4: Retrieved videos will be displayed in File Type View and Data View.

Figure 3: Recovery results

Step 5: Preview the video files with a right-click. Then select the required files for saving.

Figure 4: Preview Window

Step 6: Browse a secure location to save the retrieved videos. Tap on the Save button.

Figure 5: Save Recovered Videos