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How to Recover Shift Delete Files on Pen Stick

Are you used to store files important on your pen drive? And what would you do if you deleted them by mistake with shift delete or you have deleted them but find they are still crucial for your work or life? So you must want to find them back at that time. But do you have any idea about how to retrieve them? There is a way to deal with this kind of problem actually. Data recovery software is the very tool you needed when you were in data loss trouble.

Example of shift deleting data saved on pen stick

I have saved many pictures about my son from his born to now on my pen drive since these years. I will view them if I missed him, it reminds me of days my son accompanied me. He stays at foreign now. But I shift deleted all of them by mistake. I intended to delete other useless files and keep only my son's photos on it, but deleted all. I am not good at computer and data thing so I don't know how to retrieve them. Any people help me, please. – Fen from Detroit

Way to retrieve shift deleted information from pen drive with data recovery software

You still could find back the lost information even though you lose them by shift deletion thanks to the existence of data recovery software. In addition, the data recovery software also allows you to recover data from formatted pen stick. Here are the steps about how to restore deleted files with it:

Recover deleted files from pen stick

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the pen stick to your computer. Then, launch the software and select a recovery module.

1Download and launch the data recovery software on the computer.
2Insert the pen drive on which data was deleted to the computer.
3Start the data recovery program and select the target disk to scan.
4Preview the files in the list when scanning is done and choose the needed from them to recover.

How to avoid data losing by shift deleted

Shift delete is a kind of shortcut to delete files quickly and without residual. So you need to think twice when you used to delete files in this way. It seems they are not useful at that time but you may still need them someday in the future. Try to think it clearly. There is another way to slow down the data loss risk. Backup the important files and folders on other disk or storage devices.

Caution when using pen drive in case of information losing

Pen drive could save much information for you and keep it for a long time with its subtle design. That is why so many people prefer to choose it store their data. But if there is incorrect usage to the pen drive, data saved on it could be lost. So there is some caution when using it as follows:

1. Avoid plugging it into the incompatible devices.

2. Put the pen drive at place away from heat, likely to strike and corrosive liquid.

3. Plug it out of computer after the appearance of safety information prompted by system.

4. Do not download harmful software and save data contains worms and virus.

Tips for better usage of data recovery software

If you do not intend to find all lost data saved on the pen stick, there are some tips when retrieving lost data with data recovery software in order to save your time. You could choose different models to operate the recovery. Such as:

1. Click the deleted files to scan. If you just want to retrieve files deleted by yourself or other person, you should choose the deleted files option to scan.

2. Select the pictures option. You could choose files types to scan with data recovery software. You should choose one of them if you want to restore one specific file type to recover.

Other Situations for Pen Stick Data Loss

Pen stick shows RAW file system

Pen stick is inaccessible due to virus infection

Accidentally format pen stick

More other unknown reasons.

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