How to recover files from a USB flash drive?

USB-drive is considered a very reliable storage medium, but even it does not guarantee its absolute safety. Failures to which this type of drive is exposed can destroy any file recorded on the USB drive. How To restore files from a flash drive? There are several reliable and uncomplicated ways for this.

First, make sure that important information is deleted. Sometimes recorded on USB files are simply not visible, which means that the flash drive was infected with a virus. To make hidden files appear, you need to go to the "Folder Options" through the context menu , and then on the "View" tab to allow the system to show hidden files and to forbid hiding system files. To do this, you should mark the item and uncheck the "Advanced Options" window. Hidden or system files on the flash drive should not be. If they did appear, then it's a virus. It should be isolated or cleaned with an antivirus program. "Show" hidden files can not only through "Folder Options", but also with the application of Total Commander or its free version of the Free Commander. Recover files from the flash drive will have, if among the hidden information is not needed. Most importantly - do not write anything to the affected drive. The new file will certainly be written to the old one, and then it will not be possible to recover the lost information .

Files on the drive may not be available for several reasons. Firstly, the flash drive itself may not open. The system either does not "see" the USB, or can not access it. This is accompanied by system error messages and a suggestion to automatically format the flash drive. At once it is not worth formatting. To restore files from the USB flash drive, you must first restart the computer, then remove and re-download the drive, and only after doing all this, take over the formatting.

After formatting the flash drive in the fast mode, we will start to restore the data. To do this, you need a special program, for example, EasyRecovery Professional. The downloaded and installed utility will scan the system and find files that can be recovered. You will only need to select the necessary data and a folder into which the program will copy them.

You can restore a deleted file not only with formatting. RawRecovery utility will help to avoid this rather long process. The program will find the affected data without having to format the drive, and save it on the hard drive or other drive. In addition to the above-mentioned utility, Help and the R-Stadio program. The principle of this application is about the same. It can restore files from a USB flash drive, scanning the system and saving the necessary data.

Programs and utilities created for data recovery, of course, greatly facilitate life. However, it is worth taking measures to avoid getting into such an unpleasant situation. First of all, you need to extract the USB-drive correctly using a special icon in the tray. If the flash drive is not removed in this way, turn off the computer and remove it from the socket. Do not keep important data in a single version. Before writing to the drive, make sure to make a copy of the document and save it on any cloud server. By the way, such cloud storage can serve as an ideal replacement for USB disks.

In conclusion, it should be added that the restoration of Transcend is no different from "repairing" the flash drive of any other brand.