If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

Have you ever been in a place where you’ve been working on an Excel file for hours, and suddenly all of your work has been lost? It might be due to an unexpected power loss or a system crash, ...

Are overwritten files really, truly gone? Or could some snoop, given enough money and resources, get that data back? In my story last week, Surviving a home data disaster: How Shirley got her files ...