Word document is an essential thing when it comes for documentation. Losing word documents will make a situation worse, but you can make the things normal by Yodot File Recovery Software.
Written by Lucy John on April 27, 2023
“I have lost a very important document from my USB drive; I was working on some Word files in my notebook a few days ago. I used to open Word documents directly from my USB and save them on itself without copying those Word files to my notebook. I’m on Microsoft Vista, is there any way that I can get back those lost Word files from the flash drive?”
Here are a few tried and tested methods to recover lost or deleted Word documents from USB:
Command Prompt, known as CMD, is part of every Windows installation, and it provides you with all the necessary commands, including those in the instructions below.
Provided the method was successful, you should see all deleted word documents on a newly created folder on your USB drive.
Windows provides an efficient way to recover deleted files from the USB drive using previous versions.
Step 1: Connect your USB flash drive to the computer where you have backed up your files in the flash drive with File History.
Step 2: Right-click the folder where your files were saved before deletion. Select Restore previous versions from the menu.
Step 3: Select the previous version according to the time, and then click Restore.
Microsoft released Windows File Recovery in 2020. This is a free app that uses command lines without graphical user interfaces. The user can input commands for different Windows File Systems and scenarios. The format of Windows File Recovery is as follows:
winfr source-drive: destination-drive: [/mode] [/switches]
There are two basic modes to help you recover deleted files. There are switches to specify which files to recover and what locations and file types to recover. Follow the steps below to see examples of commands. You can go to Microsoft support for more detailed information.
Step 1: Check the file system of your hard drive. Right-click the partition and select Properties.
Step 2: There are some common switches to use.
Microsoft Office provides a useful tool like “Auto Recover”, which sometimes helps you retrieve your missing / erased document files. Auto Recover is a feature that constantly saves the contents of a working Word file; this feature is very helpful for those users who lost their documents due to improper system termination while working on their Word document.
The default Auto Recovery file location is:
“c:\users\username\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\”
Note: To use this feature you need to change settings in MS Word Application.
Go to start > Microsoft Word > File > Options > Save > Tick the “save auto-recovery information every 10 minutes” and tick also the “keep the last AutoSaved version if I close without saving”
If your Word document is lost and your Auto Recover option is disabled, then using reliable software such as Yodot File Recovery software to restore Word files from a USB drive may be more suitable.
Yodot File Recovery software functions as a handy tool for recovering all types of documents from the USB drives and other removable storage devices such as memory cards, portable hard drives, etc. This tool supports recovering numerous MS Office and other documents including doc, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, pst, dbx, pdf, mdb, zip, rar, and so on, from various storage devices.
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