Data Recovery from Formatted External USB Disk

Comparing with external hard disk the USB disk drives are very popular as well. In this information era, it is very common that almost everybody owns a USB disk drive. I personally have 3 of them, one for my private use, one for study and one for work. Thus it can be seen that data keeping is viewed as an inevitable role in our lives. However as the same with external hard disk , USB disk drives are imperfect at times too. I would love to put few examples for you.

"Yesterday afternoon i was going to remove some figures to my computer from my only USB flash drive. And what happened later just pissed me off! The pc indicated that my USB flash drive can not be recognized when I connected it to computer. I just have bought this USB disk drive a few days ago, how could it be useless! And i had all my favorite pictures and concert videos on it. This is so frustrated and provoking. Can anybody teach me how to deal with it?"

"I was surprised when I saw the dialog which asked me to format my USB flash drive. Because I really did not understand what does format mean, I followed its demand. After I formatted it, I finally realized that my files are all gone. I thought operating USB disk drives are easy but now I wish I have not thought like this. Please help me to restore my files, thank you!"

These two circumstances are not new, right? I have ran into both of them before and the feelings were really terrible. Among them, the latter one, formatting issue is seemingly more common these days. Then let us discuss how to solve this problem.

Why the USB disk drives need to be formatted?

In order to make the trouble resolved, we need to initially comprehend how does this happen. There are few usual causes as follows.

1.The USB disk drive is damaged

There are various possibilities for drive damage, and it is common. For instance, the files on USB disk drive owns mistakes and so on.

2.The USB disk drive gets virus infections

A couple of my friends' computers or external hard disk drives have been attacked by virus before, they have told me that it is very easy to get virus from internet or other virus affected computers.

3.The demand that computer sends

Some people format their USB disk drives just because the dialog said so and thus they did what it asked. They do not know that the computer would sort out room for the infos that might coming by. Also they did not realize that format would make their files disappeared until it really occurred.

4.Wrong manipulations

Turning off or turning on computer when the USB disk drive is still on it, taking off the drive without following right process or the sudden power failure and so on.

How to finish the data recovery from formatted external USB disk

The most suitable solution of data recovery from formatted external USB disk is applying relevant software to retrieve it, the formatted data recovery softwares. I will introduce the features of this kind of softwares.

1. Easy to reach them, there are abundant of them on line and partially are free, you only need to download and launch one of them.

2. The operations are easy to learn, and the instructions of them are very clear also coupled with few successful examples to help you digest the steps, so it is impossible for anyone who claims can not use it.

3. They are designed for many types of file patterns, i.e.music, documents, videos, pictures and so on.

4. The types of computer systems are widely covered by the formatted data recovery softwares too.( All categories of Windows systems plus all kinds of Mac systems and so on.)

5. They can face any kinds of format as well.( quick format and full format.)

6. The brands of USB disk drives are extensively included by them. For example, Kingston, Samsung, Toshiba, Aigo, Lenove and so on.

7. Other external data storage devices like external hard disk drives, memory card, SD cards and thumb drives are all deemed within the range of them.

8. They are able to restore lost files from formatted or USB drive that appears as unknown drive too.

9. The process of retrieving the lost data is very efficient that it only few minutes to find them, even the drive has become raw drive.

Therefore, you can easily see that this kind of data recovery softwares are extremely powerful and convenient! I bet you will not be regret if you have one of them!

What else you should remember?

1. Making backups is always seemed important.

2. Be careful about avoiding overwrite.

3. Downloading an antivirus program is very necessary for anyone just in case.