We introduce a quantum noise deconvolution technique that requires neither complete knowledge of the noise nor partial noise tomography and is applicable to any invertible quantum noise channel. In this method we construct a set of observables with completely correctable expectation values despite our incomplete knowledge of noise. This task is achieved just by classical postprocessing without extra quantum resources. We show that the number of parameters in the subset of observables with correctable expectation values is the same for all unitary quantum channels. For mixed unitary channels and the assumption that the probability distribution of unitary errors is unknown, we instruct the construction of the set of observables with correctable expectation values. For a particular case where the mixed unitary channel is made of just two random unitary Kraus operators acting on $d$-dimensional Hilbert-space, we show that the observable with a correctable expectation value belongs to a set with at least $d$ parameters. We extend our method by considering observables for which the partial recovery of the expectation value is possible, at the cost of having partial knowledge about the noise-free initial state.

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