How to recover shift deleted files
The truth: The recycle bin does not hold files for temp deleted files on usb stick. There is no recycle bin folder on the usb flash drive.
Terms for recovery:
Do not use your USB pen drive after you deleted the files on the drive, never put any other data on it. Rewriting the device will make it impossible to recover the data.
Where did the deleted files go on the flash stick?
The deleted files were marked as empty space for new data storage, and it can only be overwritten if you saved new data to take its space.
Again, the key for successful recovery: Never use the flash drive again and keep it untouched from other changes before data were restored.
Windows may have stored a previous copy of your flash drive if you are lucky that you got your flash drive included in a Windows backup. It could let you restore files without any software.
Here are the steps to undelete files from flash drive.
First, you can try command prompt to recover the USB flash drive, but you need to be careful when you use CMD command prompt, if you make mistakes when you type characters on the command window, it may cause some irretrievable mistake to your pen drive or other disk drive.
Step1: Run CMD command prompt.
Step2: Type "chkdsk X: /f and hit Enter. (X is the drive letter of the device where used to save your deleted files.)
Step3: Type "Y" and Enter.
Step4: Type "X:" and Enter. (X is the drive letter of the device where used to save your deleted files)
Step5: Type "X:\>attrib -h -r -s /s /d *.*" and hit Enter. (X is the drive letter of the device where used to save your deleted files.)
After these five steps, you can check if it works. If it does not work, you can try another one.
If you have a data recover tool, things will be much easier. Data recovery tool can save you a lot of time and prevent some risk, professional data recovery tools can solve a lot data loss problems like deletion, formatting, corrupted, virus infection, etc.
The only thing you need to be careful is to choose a reliable program, you can try iCare Data Recovery pro , which is a 100% safe data recovery tool, it is read-only and will not do any harm to your device. And it can solve many kinds of data recovery problems, it is proved to have more effective recovery ability than most similar programs. You can try it.
Recover Deleted Files from USB Pen Drive with Data Recovery Tool
Step1: Run iCare Data Recovery pro on your computer, try "Deleted Files Recovery" function first, if it does not work, you can choose "Deep Scan Recovery".
Recover deleted files from USB pen drive.
Step2: Select your USB pen drive to scan.
Recover deleted files from USB pen drive.
Step3: Preview the found data, choose needed files to recover and save to another place.
Recover deleted files from USB pen drive.
Then your data will be back.
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