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RAW Kingston USB Flash Drive / Retrieve Files from Kingston USB Drive Which Is Unformatted
Once the USB flash drive turning to raw, there is no way for us to open it until it is formatted. It means that the raw USB flash drive can not be opened to do something on it before being formatted. The original files saved on the USB flash drive will be erased because of the formatting action and we will lose them. It is so hard for us to choose to format it or not at that time. Actually, we could retrieve the needed files and folders from the USB flash drive not formatted at first and then format it.
Case of Kingston USB flash drive showing raw error
I bought a Kingston USB flash drive days ago, but there is a problem on it now. The USB flash drive can not be opened and shows raw error. It seems that I have to format the USB flash drive before I can use it. What should I do? The reason that I do not want to format it is that there have been stored a lot of important and crucial files on it. I have to find out a way to access files on the raw USB flash drive but get nothing. Anyone could kindly help me with that? -Merry from New York
How to retrieve lost files and folders from the raw USB flash drive with data recovery software
Those files and folders saved on the raw USB flash drive previously could be restored with the help of data recovery software. It could help us get what we need back from the USB flash drive which is not formatted. The steps as follows are aimed to show us how to recover needed information with data recovery tool:
Recover data from raw USB drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the USB flash drive the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Attention should be paid when restore the needed data
The inaccessible information could be found back with data recovery tool with steps above, which is easy and simple. Easy as it is, we may also fail to restore what we need from the unformatted USB flash drive. Why do we should fail? The possible reason is that we have done something wrong, which cause the original data overwritten or corrupted again. Here are some tips below we should keep in mind to get all needed back:
1. Remove the raw USB flash drive from the computer. If we check the disk properties of USB flash drive and find it is raw file system, we should plug it out of computer safely. Also we can format it directly if there is no useful data saved on the problematic USB flash drive. If we need to find back files from the unformatted USB flash drive, we should unplug it from computer until make it clear how to restore needed files from it.
2. Do not format the raw USB flash drive immediately. We know that the raw USB flash drive could be fixed by being formatted. So we can format the raw USB flash drive and then save new data on it normally. But if there are important files saved on the USB flash drive need to be restored, we should not format it at first, but to get back what we need from the not formatted USB flash drive because you may be unable to recover data after formatting if the lost data is overwritten.
3. Do not choose the USB flash drive not formatted as the location to save the data recovery program and files to be retrieved. We will be asked to choose location to save data recovery tool and the restored information in step1 and step5. What we should do is to select one of the computer hard disks as the location to store them in case of overwriting, and they could not be saved on the same drives.
4. Other related attention should be paid to.
Brief introduction to Kingston
Kingston is one of the manufactures of USB flash drive, which is located in America. It just produced one single kind of storage device in 1987, but now it could design and produce more than two thousand kinds of storage devices, which could support the computer, printer, Mp3 player, camera, phone and other digital devices that need to use the storage device to expand their internal memory nowadays.
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