

When a file is deleted from the USB flash drive, only its record is erased from the USB drive while the content of the file still remains in the original sectors. File Allocation Table in FAT file system). In fact, when you add a new file on a flash drive, information about the file(such as in which sectors the file is stored), is recorded in a table (e.g. Quite the opposite, deleted data can be found and recovered from USB flash drive with the right method and tool.

However, this doesn't mean that USB data recovery is impossible. Instead, they will be directly deleted and therefore, it is hard to recover deleted files from USB. Unlike files on your Windows or Mac computer, the deleted files from USB drive do not go to Recycle Bin or Trash.
