Windows 10: file forensics: any way to recover moved file?

Last night I moved--not copied--a file from my Dell Latitude Win 10 laptop's SSD to a thumb drive.

To be precise, I think that I clicked on the file in Windows Explorer in the laptop, then cut it via ctrl-x, and then pasted it onto the flash drive with ctrl-v.

I then safely ejected the thumb drive (I always do this), took it to my desktop, and to my horror found that the file was not on the thumb drive.

Because I moved, not copied, the file, it was no longer in its original location on the laptop. It also is not in the laptop's Recycle Bin.

My question: is the file still in some other location on the laptop, from which I can recover it?

Or, when you move a file like this, does Windows immediately permanently delete it?

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Some more details follow, if you are interested.

The thumb drive is a Visiontek PRO 256 GB USB 3 drive.

I do NOT have this problem with this thumb drive on my Dell T1700 Win 7 workstation.

However, this is the second Dell laptop that I have seen this drive have this same problem with. My original laptop, a Dell Precision Win 7 machine would sometimes do this; that one got stolen in Rotterdam a month ago. The current laptop is a Dell Latitude Win 10 box.

For some reason, there is a bad interaction between Dell laptops and this particular thumb drive. I tested another, cheaper, thumb drive on the Dell laptop and it worked fine.

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