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Quick Formatted USB Flash Drive/Stick

Do you used to save your files useful on the USB flash stick? What if you happen to lose them, such as quick format the USB flash drive all of a sudden? Do you have any solution? It is good news for people who want to retrieve lost files from the quick formatted USB flash stick that data saved on it could be got back quickly after being quick formatted. Then what is the way? Don't worry, because you will get it from this passage comprehensively. Let us kook an example firstly.

Example of USB flash drive being quick formatted accidentally

I quick formatted my USB flash drive by accident couple days ago. As a result, I lost all files and folders both important and useless saved on it. I intend to get back the vital and crucial information and have tried some possible ways. But to my upset, any data has not been retrieved efficiently. I am sure they can be restored finally. Anyone could tell me what should I do to get back my precious losses from the quick formatted USB flash stick? -Daisy from Hawaii

How to retrieve files saved on the USB flash stick after being quick formatted by error or intentionally

Data recovery software could solve such your USB flash drive problem above that retrieve lost files from the quick formatted USB flash stick. You have the ability to get back all your needed and wanted with it from the formatted pen drive as long as they have not been overwritten by any new data. Here are its steps below:

Recover data from formatted usb flash drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Connect the USB flash drive to your computer and launch the software. Then, select a proper recovery module.

1Download the data recovery software and install it on the computer.
2Connect the quick formatted USB flash drive on the computer on which data recovery tool mounted.
3Operate the data restoration program and choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the restorable contents after the scan. Preview them and just select the needed to recover.

Way to protect data lost from the USB flash drive

All of us know that there are more than one data loss situation happen to USB flash drive in daily life. How many people know that there are some precautions to avoid such terrible suffering? It means that we can protect data lost from the USB flash stick from some aspects. Here are some common protections as follows:

.1 Do not press the USB flash drive or try to bend it. It is obvious that you will lose information saved on the USB flash stick once it is damaged or separated. What makes things worse, such data loss situation are difficult to be fixed. It belongs to the physical corruption.

2. Make sure there is enough battery on the computer when you format the USB flash drive, read and write it, and other process. An abrupt power failure may easily cause data loss trouble when USB flash stick is connected to the computer.

3. Bake up important files have been saved on the USB flash drive already. You can easily and quickly recover them if you lose files valuable off USB flash because of formatting, accidental deletion, virus infection, and so on.

4. Do not use and put the USB flash stick in heat and high humidity, and do not let it in the sunshine. Matters above will destroy both the USB flash stick itself and files saved on it and lead to data loss situation.

5. Refuse to use the pirated software and download files from the suspicious site. You give an opportunity for virus to infect your USB flash drive and files on it if you use harmful software and accept suspicious files.

Kind of files could both be saved on the USB flash drive and be restored after losing

We need to use various kinds of files for different purpose, so there are many kinds of types of file need to be saved on the USB flash stick. Which kind of files could be stored on it? Actually, any common types of file we saw and use could be saved on it for convenience. Then which types of file could be retrieved after the USB flash drive being quick formatted? The answer is all data saved on it could be got back by data recovery tool on the condition that they are not been overwritten. For instance: Word documents, PPT, music, videos, audio files, photos, texts, and so forth.

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