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How to Recover Shift Delete Files on Thumb Drive
Have you ever lost files from thumb drive, such as deleted or shift deleted them? Have you been unable to access files on your thumb drive becuase the thumb drive is not formatted? If so, have you ever tried to find them back and are you successful? Maybe you have tried many times but failed, maybe you do not know the shift deleted information could be retrieved yet. But now, I will share with you one kind of magic software with which you could restore the entire files lost by shift deleted or other reasons. It is data recovery software.
Example of shift deleting files on thumb drive
I lost all my files saved on my thumb drive by an accidental shift deleting. I do not intend to delete any one of them. My friend told me that shift plus delete is a shortcut of fun, so I tried to press those two buttons at the same time for fun. But things turn to tricky because files which are important saved on the thumb drive disappeared. I ask my friend to get them back but he has not any idea. I have no idea, either. What can I do to retrieve all of them? - Leonard from New York
Way to retrieve data shift deleted on thumb drive with data recovery software
The shift deleted files saved on thumb drive could be retrieved easily within a short time. If you don't know how to handle it, please look at the following steps and start one by one.
Pay attention, the software can not only recover data from thumb drive, but it can recover data from formatted external hard drive, pen drive, memory card and so on. It can also recover data from a RAW drive.
Recover deleted files from thumb drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the thumb drive to your computer. Then, launch the software and select a recovery module.
Simple introduction to thumb drive
Thumb drive also could be called as pen drive, flash drive or jump drive and it could connect to computer without the card reader like memory card. Compared with memory card, it has a much bigger size and it is more convenient for you to carry with without worrying data loss. It can not insert to the phone, camera and some other digital devices. Its common storage capacities range from 1GB to 64GB. But there still are some thumb drives with a more huge volume.
Warnings of using thumb drive
You may have ignored so much common sense in daily life when using thumb drive, which could result in the data loss situations. So please keep the following things in mind:
1. Some or all you data saved on the thumb drive may lose if you put it near a magnet. Magnet will erase the information on it.
2. When files saved on your thumb drive are lost, please stop using it or storing new data on it. You'd better hide it before data recovery.
3. Put it away from heat.
How long the deleted files could still stored on the thumb drive after deleting
Data recovery software could retrieve the shift deleted information quickly and fully because the deleted files are not removed from the thumb drive authentically. In other words, the deleted data are still saved on the thumb drive as usual. The only difference is that they can not be seen by your eyes. The file system makes the deleted information invisible and makes the space as blank and available for storing new data. So the deleted data could save on the thumb drive as long as files saved on it which has not been deleted on the condition that you do not save new data on it, namely they are not overwritten.
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