Recovery flash drive - ways to

There was a nuisance - your flash drive does not open, there are no files visible on it or they can not be opened. The reasons for this situation can be several: power failure, incorrect device removal, viruses, the outbreak of their construction, the appearance of damaged memory areas. Sometimes grief can be helped, sometimes not. Recovery flash can be carried out in different ways, but it all depends on the type of damage.

The simplest problem is solved when the disappearance of files was due to the work of the virus. In this case, run the antivirus, it "heals" Device (at the same time properly check your computer and other devices where your flash drive could walk), the files become available. Recovery flash drive finished.

In other cases, everything is somewhat more serious. If the information that was on the flash drive is not very important or there are easily accessible copies, then you can just limit the formatting of the device. Often this helps. You can first try to check the device with a regular program Windows ScanDisk. This program looks for defeated areas of memory and restores them. So if your drive crashes due to "clogged" clusters, this should help. If the miracle does not happen, you can start formatting. It can be done again with the help of a regular Windows program or any other operating system, or you can use special programs (for example, SDFormatter, HDDLFT, HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, etc.).

Note that there are two types of formatting: complete and fast. With fast formatting after the program is finished, you can restore the data that was recorded on the media (this property and use it when you need to restore the files on the USB flash drive). Full formatting leads to the fact that all data is reset (zeros are written in their place). This method is used for failures in work (writing and reading) or for guaranteed removal of the virus. Nothing prevents you to first format the device in fast mode, restore the information, and then perform a full format. This way you will protect yourself from new troubles (for some time) and restore the flash drive.

If the information is very important, you can try to restore it using the Recuva program. This program is distributed free of charge, but despite this, it does a good job of recovering files from a hard disk or flash drive. Part Lost information is restored completely, part is fragmentary, i.e. Some of the files are working, some are not. But this is a very good result.

In the event that there is a lock controller (a special chip that is responsible for exchanging information between the computer and the drive), formatting may not help. Then you need to go to the manufacturer's website, find there a recovery program for your device type (usually the word "recovery" in the title), download, run it and do everything according to the instructions. These programs are often (almost always) contained on the disk that comes with the flash drive. Well, if it's not lucky, look for it on the official website.

All efforts failed - the controller probably burned out. Then you have a direct path to a specialist, but this is not a cheap event - the services of a good specialist are expensive. Then can it be better to restore the information yourself and buy another flash drive? It will cost several times cheaper. I hope, now you know how to restore the flash drive yourself.