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Unformat Thumb Drive Data Recovery

Nowadays, recovering the data from an unformat memory drive is not a hard question any more. No matter what kind of files you lost, the data recovery software is always able to find them back for you. But in the past, it was only a dream for most people to restore their multimedia files from an unformatted memory device like a thumb drive or some other storage media.

How can I recover data from unformat thumb drive?

It is universally acknowledged that thumb drives are famous for their huge storage capacity as well as the god-given portability. And therefore, they are widely used by people from all walks of life, professors、students、IT workers、pressmen、photographers、businessmen and so on and so forth. People use thumb drives to store a mass of multimedia information because they are so user-friendly that they can be easily carried with. However, the thumb drive could change into a raw or unformatted for some reasons like virus attacks、file system corruption and improper preservation. In that case, the inside data might become inaccessible and accordingly you will be unable to read or write any of the files.

"I have a thumb drive and I use it to store a good deal of important multimedia files, songs、pictures、nice videos、abstracts and digests of belle-letter writings and many more. But yesterday when I opened the memory to do some work on it, it indicated an unformat error and changed to RAW file system. What can I do to access my vital information again?".

To address the problem, you need to recover the data from your unformat memory drive. But before you bring back all your vital stuffs, you might as well stop using the thumb drive at once, in case that you might do some damage to the internal data and lead to further data loss.

Rescue data from thumb drive that is unformatted:

"Please help me! There is some unknown virus attacking my thumb drive, and it is unformatted now! Neither I am able to format the thumb drive nor am I able to access the inside data. What else can I do? I really do not want to lose my data. They are very important to me. Please give me some advice. Thank you!"

Above all, you should not take any futile actions, instead, you ought to calm down yourself and move on to do something helpful to recover the inaccessible data. Actually, the data recovery software is quite enough for you to restore the lost files from the unformatted thumb drive.

Recover Data after Formatting Thumb Drive

You can use the data recovery software to unformat thumb drive and retrieve all lost files effectively and efficiently. It is easy to handle. With this software, you can recover any type of file after formatting. You can follow the steps below to get back lost data from your formatted thumb drive:

Recover data from formatted thumb drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your PC. Connect the thumb drive to your PC and run the software. Then, you can select a recovery module.

1Download the data recovery program and install it to your computer.
2Connect the unformat thumb drive to the computer and launch the recovery tool at once.
3You should choose the recover module as well as the scan mode and the softaware can scan.
4When the scanning is done, you can preview the files and highlight the ones to be restored.
5Restore the selected files and save them to an alternative memory disk instead of the one unformatted.

Tips for recovering multimedia files from unformat memory drive

  • You must keep your memory card away from some dangerous substance, such as fire and water.
  • You should not install the data recovery software to the unformat memory drive, because this will probably lead to data overwriting which is apt to make your data less recoverable.
  • You'd better not save the retrieved data directly to the original memory drive which is unformatted.

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