How to restore a file from formatted USB drive

You have formatted your USB drive wrongly or it failed to work due virus attack or for some reason it becomes in accessible displaying RAW file format, where in this case the common option is to format it, but sadly you will lose all your files in it.

When you are in this situation the one option you have is to try to restore your file from this formatted USB as soon as possible, actually, formatting a USB flash drive does not completely delete all USB drive data. Just only mark all the files invisible, making room for initial use. Data in a formatted disk may be recoverable, provided we use the right tools.

To increase your chance of successful recovery, it is advisable not to use the USB until you get back your data.

To Unformat USB drive or any other non-removable drive from which you want to restore lost data  , you need to use third party data recovery tools , there are too many tools for this purpose , here I recommend you to try iCare Data Recovery Free  and Power data recovery

Download and install one of the two tools above, let me show you how to recover using power data recovery,

 

 

Power recovery has different options such as Undelete recovery, advanced recovery and Deep Scan Recovery. 

Undelete recovery will used for recovering a file accidentally deleted from Recycle bin or restores files deleted 

using shift + delete option.

You can use Advanced Recovery for formatted drives, damaged partitions, in accessible or lost partitions

The last option which is Deep scan recovery will give you a chance to recovery files in more complex situations.

For our case let us use advanced recovery, click on it and select the drive you want to restore data from

Select the drive and click on full scan

As you can see here, it started scanning the drive, wait until if finishes, depending on the size of USB and 

the files in it will take from few minutes to hours

 

Once the scan has completed, select the partition you want and click show files, partitions with highest suggestion rate 

are recommended to check first 

Yeah, we get it, as you can see below, some found files are listed, and check the box and click on 

save files to restore your lost files

 

After you select the file to restore, it is better not to save to the same drive because it might overwrite other lost files

 

 

If there are too many files and you can’t easily find one, you can use find files option to find files by name

 

Power data recovery also gives you a chance to recover files by filtering using specific criteria like file extension, size, date etc.

   If  you can’t find your files in the selected partition , check by selecting another  

Partition or try also Deep scan recovery, for sure you will get your files back 

This will work for any drive , not only from USB

 

Done!

 

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