Recover Word documents from computer lab PC when source (USB) drive no longer exists?

Question

I lost my 60 GB USB drive quite recently back in my school's computer lab.Unfortunately, by the time I got there when I realized my USB was missing, it was already gone. So, its currently missing.I have a few important Word documents in there, that were only saved in the USB. There is no auto-recovery or backup, unfortunately.What I'd like to know is if it is possible if I could recover any of them. Although, they are listed in the "Recent Documents" of word. I'd just like to know if there is ANY way I could recover them. Like, using a program to recover them. I am using Microsoft Word 2010.

Answer 1

This is a long shot but if you can still access the computer you last opened the documents in, they might be in the Autorecover folder. An example path for such a folder is C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word. You could also search local folders for filenames containing "Autorecovery save" or files with the ".asd" extension. Best of luck!