How to Recover Deleted Photos in Windows 8

Taking photos has become the commonest way for people to keep memories for happy time like birthday, family time, wedding, babies' growth, and more. It's very convenient to save lots of photos in one place on your computer. Well, it's also pretty easy to lose them by mistaken deletion or other reasons. When this happens to you, what should you do to rescue them, especially when you're running Windows 8 on your computer? Don't worry. If you're the unlucky one, you're at the right place. Next, we'll discuss how can you recover deleted photos in Windows 8 with detailed steps.

How to perform deleted photo recovery in Windows 8

If you've emptied Recycle Bin after you deleted those photos on your computer, or you just deleted them bypass Recycle Bin, the way to restore them from Recycle Bin is a dead end. You need a third-party photo recovery software to help you retrieve lost photos from Windows 8. Thus the program should be compatible with Windows 8. Don't have one? Here is my recommendation: Wondershare Data Recovery, which works perfectly with Windows 8 and allows you to recover deleted photos in Windows 8 with 3 clicks.

Before getting started, don't save any new data on the partition where you just lost your photos, including download or install any programs, to avoid overwriting your lost photos.

Download the free trial version of this Windows 8 deleted photo recovery software below to have a try first.

Download the right version of Wondershare Data Recovery on your computer, and follow the next simple steps to perfrom deleted photos recover.

Step 1. Select the file type

To recover deleted photos in Windows 8, you can select the option "Photo" to process.

Step 2. Select the location to scan

Here, all partitions on your computer will be listed. Choose the one where your lost photos were saved before and click "Start" to scan it for those lost photos.

Step 3. Deep Scan deletd Photos

The recover software will start a quick scan, if it can't find your lost photos go to scan agian with deep scan. The deep scan will deeply search your storage and it will take more time.

Step 4. Preview and recover deleted photos in Windows 8

When the scan finished, all photos that can be recovered will be found and displayed in the scan result. You can click to preview them one by one. Then mark those you want and click "Recover" to save them all on your computer with one click.

Tips:
If you also want to recover documents more than videos, photos and audio files, such as Office documents, PDF files, Archives, Emails, etc. from computer or other devices, you need to choose the higher version: Wondershare Data Recovery, which does more than Wondershare Photo Recovery.