Recover deleted and overwritten Excel files

If an Excel document was deleted, Data Recovery Wizard will scan the entire disk to find the contents of the deleted worksheet in previously saved copies or backup files. If the contents of the Excel document were overwritten, it will be regenerated from fragments of previously saved versions of the file. To search lost office file, please refer here.

To recover Excel files from a drive, follow these steps:

Recover deleted and overwritten Excel files

If an Excel document was deleted, Data Recovery Wizard will scan the entire disk to find the contents of the deleted worksheet in previously saved copies or backup files.

Data Recovery Wizard supports all versions of Windows and all versions of Microsoft Excel from version 6.0.

Key Features:
Recover Microsoft Excel 6.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007 documents.
Recover Excel documents that have been deleted or overwritten.
Recover Excel documents even from deleted partitions and formatted disks.
Supports all versions of FAT, NTFS, EXT2 and EXT3 file system.

If your excel files which you lost are stored in the volume, you can use this method to recover the files:

1. Click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard.

2. You can see the list of all logical volumes found on your computer.

3. Choose one of them and press the "NEXT" button (if you are familiar with file system details, you can change "Option" before pressing the "NEXT" button).

4. Data Recovery Wizard will read file system on selected volume.

5. This step will launch the Intelligent Searching interface to search the file system which has been used in this volume.

6. You will see Select Recognized Partition Page which list found file systems in this volume.

7. Please select one or more partitions with the file systems which you are sure or unsure.

8. And then, the Data Recovery Wizard will enter Building directories interface to find files.

9. After this scanning is finished, you'll see file/folder tree.

10. You can click "Find file by name" or "Search files" to see search office document and right click to preview the excel file.

11. Select the file or folder that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button.

12. Select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

Please see "Complete Recovery" for more details.

Note: You can also recover lost Excel files from Raw folders.

If the Excel files are stored in the volume which you deleted or damaged, you should use the "Partition Recovery" to recovery the files.

The demo version of Data Recovery Wizard gives you a much fairer idea about chances of data recovery from your hard disk before deciding upon the purchase. You can buy full version to recover data!

Caution: Saving file(s) to the partition or drive from where you are recovering data, for it may result in overwriting of data, and would result in permanent data loss!!!