Data Recovery from Dead Flash Drive

Pen drives are used by a lot of people across the world for carrying important business as well as personal files. They allow you to carry your vital data with you, ready to be used whenever or wherever required just by connecting to USB port on computer. Though these USB flash drives are very robust, they often fail or stops working due to some mysterious facts. Consider a scenario, when you plug in the flash drive holding your files, your files might have disappeared all of sudden i.e. you see nothing on it or entire data becomes unreadable refusing to open. Moreover, when your PC fails to recognize the plugged in flash drive, it means that it is dead. In such cases you may try connecting your flash drive to different ports of same or another computer and check whether it can be identified or not. But if the result seems to be same, then it is clear that flash drive is dead, which results in the loss of files or leaves them inaccessible. This could make you suffer from loss of data when you don’t have another copy of the files that you saved on pen drive.

Whatever may be the cause for dead flash drives, you really care about the valuable data that you kept on it. On such occasions you might have googled for an effective way to get back data from dead flash drive and found several third party flash drive data recovery tools. But you are really confused about selecting the right software as usage of ineffective tool could damage flash data again, making its recovery further difficult. To resolve your confusion, here is a reliable Flash Recovery software to successfully recover data from dead flash drive on Windows OS. Download and install the demo version to retrieve flash drive data in few mouse clicks. This tool has a user friendly interface that will show the complete list of recovered files at the end and you can look for any desired file types using the Find option available on it. You can rely on these recovery results to analyze the performance of this flash recovery software. This application can also be used to perform flash drive recovery on Mac machines installed with Mac OS X and above operating systems like Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion.

Some of the identified causes for dead flash drives are mentioned as follows:

• Corruption of flash drive file system
• Severe virus infections
• Incorrect formatting/reformatting
• Bad sectors on USB flash drives
• Exposure to extreme heat or moisture
• Wear and tear
• Errors/interruptions during the file transfer process
• Improper removal, power failures and sudden system shutdown
  

What you need to do when flash drive goes dead

The best possible way to overcome the loss of data is to keep another copy of files stored on the flash drive and to update it regularly so that it saves your time and data in the event of data loss. Also make sure that your system is free of harmful viruses/malware/spyware, to avoid the corruption of your flash drive. But if data loss has already taken place, then you have to stop using dead flash drive from for storing new files. Because it would lead to overwriting of lost files space on flash drive with new data thus leading to permanent loss of files. Also do not format or reformat your flash drive after data loss, as it reduces the chances of lost file recovery from dead flash drive. Make use of reliable tool like flash recovery to bring back lost data from dead flash drive in a safe and secure manner.

Recover corrupted flash drive data

• Flash recovery software is built with special algorithms to deeply scan your USB flash drive for searching lost or inaccessible files when it dies or unrecognized by the operating system when you connect it to the computer.
• It has the capability to retrieve around 280 file types such as Word files, emails, video files, audio files, images, RAW photo files, excel sheets, zip archives, etc based on their unique file signatures.
• This tool comes handy with simple and interactive user interface, using which even a novice user will be able to carry out dead flash drive data recovery in simple steps.
• Using this tool, it is possible to recover flash drive partition after accidental deletion, formatting, corruption and other reasons.
• It supports data recovery on all popular brands of USB flash drives including Transcend, Kingston, SanDisk, HP, Lexar, Sony and lot more.
• This flash recovery tool can restore the lost files that bypass Windows Recycle Bin and disappear from your flash drive.
• You can easily execute dead flash drive recovery on Windows PC having latest Windows 7, XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems.

Steps to recover data from dead flash drive on Windows PC:

Step 1: Download and launch flash recovery software on PC having Windows OS. You will get main screen displaying three options, select "Recover Partitions/Drives" option to begin data recovery from dead flash drive as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Click on Recover Partitions/Drive Option

Step 2: Select Partition Recovery option from the next display screen to recover all lost or inaccessible files from flash drivewhen it goes dead as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Select Partition Recovery Option

Step 3: Select flash drive from list of idenfied drives and click on Next button as shown in Figure 3. Once the flash drive is selected then the software will scan the selected drive for the lost data.

Figure 3: Select Dead Flash Drive

Step 4: After scanning is completed it will display the list of recovered files from dead flash drive under Data View. You can preview recovered files as shown in Figure 4.

 

Figure 4: Recovered Files from Dead Flash Drive

Note: You will only be allowed to save the retrieved data from flash drive in full version of this software. Demo version is only used for evaluation of the recovery chances.

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