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Recover Files from Formatted Thumb Drive

Do you want to recover your lost files from your formatted thumb drive? Above all, you should stop using the thumb drive immediately after the formatting. If you continue writing new data into the formatted memory drive, it is more likely that the formatted data inside the drive might be overwritten by the successors. And once they were replaced by the new data, you will have to lose them forever.

How will I recover files from formatted thumb drive?

Thumb drives are a small piece of memory device which are popularly used to store a diversity of multimedia files such as music and photographs. Many people are keen on this media because it is portable as well as capacious. But it often happens that the files inside the thumb drive are easily to be lost due to the carelessness of some users.

"I have a cute thumb drive that holds a lot of vital stuffs and I enjoy carrying it with me wherever I go. However, these days, I am really fed up with it. I guess the file system of the thumb drive must have been corrupted by some unknown virus, in that the memory drive reports unformatted and required me to format it. I have no other way to go but have to format the disk eventually. Since that, I could access my data no more. How will I recover the files from this formatted thumb drive?"

If this were exactly what you are faced with, how will you do to restore your precious data inside the thumb drive? Beyond question, you have to stop using the thumb drive immediately. This is the only way to prevent the memory drive from being overwritten. And on this basis, you are able to recover the lost data from the formatted drive via data recovery software.

Rescue your files from the formatted thumb drive:

"How can I restore my data from the accidentally formatted thumb drive? I have had my thumb drive formatted by mistake yesterday afternoon; before that, I did not take any backups of the vital stuffs in the drive. is it possible for me to recover them? If possible, please tell me how to do it without any risk of secondary data loss. Thanks a lot."

Once the above problem occurs, you can make use of the data recovery software to help you restore the files lost from your memory drive after format. Admittedly, this process will take you a period of time but no risks of secondary data loss. And what is more, the data recovery program is quite simple and easy to use. And therefore, you needn't have to worry too much. Even if you are not equipped with any professional knowledge of the recovery software or technical skills on it, you are able to recover the formatted data by yourself via data recovery software.

Recover Data after Formatting Thumb Drive

As mentioned above, you can easily and effectively recover data from a USB thumb drive after formatting. You should remember not to write any new data to the formatted thumb drive. Then, you can download the software and follow the steps below to get back lost files on the formatted thumb drive

Recover data from formatted thumb drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Insert the thumb drive to your computer and run the software. You need to select a proper recovery module to recover data on formatted drive.

1Download the data recovery software and install it to your PC or laptop.
2Insert Thumb drive to your PC or laptop and launch the software.
3Select a recovery module and choose the thumb drive as target drive to scan.
4Preview the files found by the program and highlight the ones that you want to recover.
5Recover the selected items to another storage device.

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