When you delete a file on your computer, it doesn’t disappear. The operating system just has the ability to overwrite the area on the hard drive where the file resides. Restoration is a file recovery program. It lets you scan your whole hard drive or search for specific keywords or file names. Find your file and click Restore by Copying. You should restore the file to a different drive from the original. If you select the same drive, Restoration warns you that you may accidentally overwrite the file with itself, destroying it.