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RAW USB Flash Drive / Stick Data Recovery When Needs Formatting
Do you used to store files on the USB flash drive? It is very convenience for us to store files and folders on the USB flash drive, because it is easy to carry. But what if there is something goes wrong on the USB flash drive, such as it turns to raw? Have you ever net it? Do you have any idea how to access files saved on the USB flash stick previously after becoming raw file system? As a matter of fact, we can retrieve those files to view from the unformatted USB flash drive.
Case of USB flash drive meeting raw problem
I need your guys help desperately. I saved a movie on my brothers USB flash drive and when I connect to another computer it show raw file system. I have no idea what have happened. I can not open it to watch that movie. But what is more important is that there are many important and crucial files saved on the USB flash drive, and those files are my brother's working files. He must be mad at me if he knows what I have done. Is there and one could kindly help me get those lost files back? -Linda from Los Angeles
How to get lost information back from the raw USB flash drive with data recovery software
We have the ability to get those lost files and folders back from the raw USB flash stick just within a few minute. What we need is data recovery software, and a computer is also needed. Here are the steps below to show us how it works, and what we should do to restore the lost data is to perform them one by one:
Recover data from raw USB flash drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the USB flash drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
The related problems to raw USB flash drive
The USB flash drive becoming raw problem is very terrible for us if we have no idea how to access those inaccessible files. We can regard those files as losses though we do not delete them or format the USB flash stick. There are some related troubles to the raw USB flash drive which need to be formatted before we can use it. Here are some of them as follows:
1. Disk in drive R need to be formatted before we can use it. We may see the system prompt that you need to format the disk in drive R before you can use it. Do you want to format it now? It is one of the signals to the USB flash drive become raw. And at that time, we should not format the USB flash stick, but to restore those inaccessible files with data recovery tool.
2. The USB flash drive can not be opened. No matter we double click or single click the USB flash drive icon, it can not be opened. System will keep prompting us to format it. Though it can not be opened, data recover program also could get needed files back from USB flash stick which is not formatted.
3. Both the free space and used space are 0 byte. We may check the disk properties when can not use the USB flash drive normally, and then we will find the information that both the free space and used space are 0 byte. And we will see the file system is raw. Don’t worry, as we can format it to fix the raw problem. If there is data useful, we should retrieve the needed at first and then format it.
4. Other related problems to raw USB flash drive.
Storage devices that could be supported by data recovery tool
Except from USB flash drive, we also could store files on other storage devices, such as external hard disk, memory card, and so forth. So some people wonder that does data recovery tool could recover data from the other storage devices when it is need to be formatted before can be used. Absolutely, data recovery program could retrieve files from the other kind raw storage devices if there are useful contents on them. For example, external hard disk, hard disk, SM card, CF card, TF card, MMC card, memory stick, SD card, mini SD card, XD picture card, and so forth.
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