Recover lost files after cut and paste

Cut and paste are frequently by us to remove files. When perform cut and paste, the file will be transferred from its original place to another place. You have two ways to achieve the remove of  file: right-click the file to choose Cut and Paste option, or using the keyboard combination key :Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V. When you choose to cut a file, the content of this file is removed to a virtual clipboard. The clipboard is where all your copied files stored. After you paste it, the file has been removed to the new place. After you have chosen to cut or paste the files, you can press “Ctrl+Z” to cancel your operation, then the file will be back to its original place. However, you can only undo your operations before you have done another cut or paste operations. The new command will overwrite the old ones. In most cases, you can successfully cut and paste your files. However, occasionally, there are some unsuccessful cut and paste lead to data loss. It’s really an annoy thing.

Many people though that their files have permanently lost after unsuccessful cut and paste. But that is not the truth. Once you cut and paste files, the content of files stayed on the original place will be marked as an inaccessible file and prepared to be overwritten by new files. Therefore you still have chance to recover the files lost by cut and paste.

What are the reasons for unsuccessful cut and paste?

Unsuccessful cut and paste are not that common. What are the causes for the failures?

Hardware failures, application malfunctions

Data transfer get interrupted by human, such as remove the USB cable when transferring data from computer to flash drive.

Sudden power shortage. Such as your computer abruptly shut down.

Fortunately, the files will not permanently deleted after the cut and paste failure. If stop using your computer and then use the data recovery software immediately, it’s not difficult for you to recover all the files.

Steps to recover lost files after cut and paste failure

Once you have an unsuccessful cut and paste, you should keep calm for not to overwritten the files on computer. Find a professional data recovery software for Windows recovery to retrieve the lost files at the first time.

Choose Universal recovery mode from the software interface. Click next to choose the partition where you need to recover files. Click next to scan the partition.

When the software automatically scan your hard drive, you should not interrupt it.

After it has scanned the entire partition, you are able to preview the results and then choose the file you need to click next.

Then you are required to choose a recovery path. The recovery path should not been the partition where you have data loss.

After you have successfully recovered the files with data recovery software, you can check if you can access to the files.

Be careful when you using the cut and paste command. After you choose to cut the files, you should not cut other files to paste the clipboard before you have paste it successfully. If you are regret for your cut and paste operation, you should press Ctrl+Z to undo your operations before you have other operations.