When you want to move some photos from one drive to another, how will you do it? Most of you choose to use “Copy + Paste” or “Cut + Paste” commands. Generally speaking, using “Copy + Paste” commands is safe by contrast.

When you copy some photos from one drive to another, the original items will be kept in their original location unless you delete them then. However, if you choose to use “Cut + Paste” commands, the photos will be deleted from the original path. Thus, there will be a risk like this: photo lost in cut and paste for some uncertain reasons. In this situation, is it possible to do cut photo recovery?

Actually, if you have a piece of professional photo recovery software, you will be able to recover photos lost in cut and paste in an easy and effective way.

In this post, we think you should try MiniTool Photo Recovery.

This software is specially designed to recover your lost and deleted photos from different kinds of storage devices such as digital camera, USB flash drive, SD card, computer hard drive and so forth as long as the cut photos are not overwritten by new data. So, please stop using your computer as soon as possible if you want to do cut photo recovery.

Now, the following part will lead you to get your cut photos back by using this software. In addition, you can also read this post to learn more useful information about cut photo recovery: How to Recover Cut Photos? Some Useful Solutions Are Here!

How to Retrieve Photos Lost in Cut and Paste with MiniTool?

The Free Edition of this software enables you to recover 200 MB photos in total. So, you can download and install this freeware from the MiniTool official site to your computer to have a try first.

Step 1: When you open the software, you will enter its main interface as follows. After that, you need to click on “Start” button to continue.
 

Step 2: Then, this software will show you the drives it can detect in the following with their drive letters, capacities and information. You can identify and choose the target drive from these parameters and click on “Scan” button to continue.
 

Step 3: When the scanning process is finished, you will see a scan result interface with all the scanned items. Then, you can choose the photos you want to recover. In fact, you can even preview them by double-clicking on the items. After that, please click on “Save” button and choose a proper path to save them. It is recommended not to save them to its original path to prevent the cut photos from being overwritten.
 

With MiniTool Photo Recovery, you will discover that it is really easy to do cut photo recovery. If you want to use this software to recover more than 200 MB photos, you can update this freeware to its advanced edition.