Reg. recovery of lost file

Frnz, One of my friend was copying an excel file in a Cd. the Cd was full and having no space so she found an error of low space. she cancelled the command. again she found some window or error asking to take any action, she didn't read the same and again clicked on cancel command. her mistake was that she use cut command instead of copy, she lost her file. that file no where in system and she is very tensed as her lots of work has been lost. i was not a part of the incident when it happened so can't describe the actual errors. cud anyone help me if there is any possibility of getting that file back. that file was on desktop.
please tell me if it is possible.
Regards,
JMD