Can a Word document be recovered, when its physical storage media is absent?

I have written an essay, and I saved it on my USB memory stick.

Being an idiot, I have proceeded to lose my memory stick.

With a deadline pending I was curious as to whether anyone knew of any way at all (temp files etc) that I could recover this Word document?            


Solution 1:

You may find some recovery data from %appdata%\Roaming\Microsoft\Word.

More exhaustively you can look at the microsoft support page. They provide 6 methods to recover file you wrote with word.

Some require options to be activated before, other not.

I hope you can find what you need.