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Free Data Recovery from Pen Drive

Have you been puzzled in the process of using pen drive? Have you ever formatted your pen stick by mistake? Have you ever run into data loss on pen drive due to RAW file system? Maybe one annoyed you best is to lose information from it. What if there is a way to salvage all your losses, which means that you could deal with this kind of problem easily and quickly. So it should not be a puzzle any more. Do you have any idea about what the efficient way is? Data recovery software is a powerful tool, which could cope with your data loss problem.

Data loss happens to pen drive case

My new pen drive has brought about so much convenience to me since I bought it. But I accidentally click on the format all button when I wanted to rename one of my folders on it. As a result, I can not access any information saved on it. Anyone could help me recoup my lost data? Some of them are valuable for me, and some of them are my working files, which is really important and crucial. Please help me. – Jacob from New Zealand

How to reclaim lost information from pen drive by data recovery software

In order to recover data after formatting, deleting, or other reaons, you should not use your pen drive or perform any operation on it until the lost information has been retrieved and it is usable again. As for finding back the lost files and folders, you should follow steps below one by one:

Recover data from pen drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the pen drive to your computer. Then, run the software.

1Insert your pen drive to the computer and make sure that they connect to each other well.
2Download the data recovery software and launch it on the computer.
3Double hit it to start the recovery. Choose the target disk and file types to scan.
4Preview files recoverable after scanning and select files need to be restored to recover.

Proper usage of pen drive to restore files

Many improper usage of pen drive may lead to data loss problem. So you should develop the habit of using your pen drive correctly in daily life. Here are some good habits of proper usage of pen drive as follows:

1. Put it away from heat, striking and corrosive liquid while not using the pen drive.

2. Do not remove it from computer suddenly.

3. Do not save files and software which contain worms and virus on it.

4. Keep the flash chips clean.

5. Try to not cut and paste files and folders but to copy then delete them.

Types of data on pen drive could be retrieved by data recovery software

Pen drive could store a lot of files with different properties, such as common picture formats: JPG, JPEG, TIF, common video formats: AVI, MPG, MOV, MPEG, ASF, MP4, 3GP, MTS, common audio formats: WAV, MP3, AMR, and some raw image formats: Nikon NEF, Cannon CRW and CR2, Sony SRF and other popular raw image formats. So you may wonder which kind of type of file on pen drive could be restored by data recovery software. There is no need for you to worry about this question, because most data recovery software could retrieve all kinds of file format. And if not, they will tell you at their homepage.

Common manufacturers of pen drive

There are lots of manufacturers to produce and design pen drives, which is also called USB stick. You should buy one in a reliable brand in order to keep your data safe. Here are some common brands of pen drive below: Kingston, Sandisk, Weigang, Taidian, HP, PNY, Patriot, Apacer, Netac, SSK.

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