Data Recovery from Flash Drive on Mac
Flash drives are portable devices that serve the basic need of data storage and easy transfer of data in reliable way. Like any other storage device, flash drives are more susceptible to data loss due to some unforeseen situations. Nobody would like to lose their valuable files stored on USB flash drive, data loss situation varies from small mistake of deletion to any complex issue such as flash drive corruption. You might have stored your valuable pictures, songs, videos, presentation files, word documents, excel sheets, emails and other files. What if you don’t have backup of your flash drive data?? As lost data is very important, somehow you need to get back data lost from flash drive immediately! But you really don’t know how to retrieve lost data from flash drive on Mac OS? It’s very simple!!! Here is a wonderful Flash Drive Recovery Utility, which will help you in restoring complete data deleted/lost form flash drive on Mac OS. This recovery tool has an easy to use graphical interface that will not require you to have any technical experience to perform data recovery. You just have to connect the flash drive from which you have lost data, run flash drive utility on you Mac system and follow the steps guided by its user interface to successfully recover flash drive files.
Some tips to follow while using flash drive and after losing data from flash card?
Data backup, security and faster access are important reasons that had increased the usage and made flash drives popular. However, technical problems that might happen at any given instance are capable to erase entire files stored on flash drive data and may even damage flash drive as well. Hence you have to take some precautions to protect data saved on flash drive from loss or corruption related issues. First and foremost thing is that maintain and update the backup copy of your important flash drive files regularly, ensure that you are inserting and removing flash card to and from Mac system in proper manner. Check for important files stored in flash drive before deleting or formatting it, avoid connecting flash drive to virus infected computer. In this case you need not bother even if you lose data from flash drive, because backup file is used to recover lost data. But when you don’t have back up and lost data, then you should stop using your flash drive for saving new data as it might results in overwriting of deleted file space with new file content. When overwriting takes place it causes permanent loss of data from flash drive. In such instance, make use of Flash Drive recovery software to safely get back your lost stuff from flash drive in quick time. For more information to restore data from corrupted flash drie without formatting, click here https://www.recoverflash.com/without-formatting.html.
What are the different reasons accountable for loss/deletion of flash drive data?
- Deletion: When you are about to delete some unwanted files from flash drive, there is possibility that you may select important files and delete them by hitting delete button.
- Formatting: Flash drive is intentionally formatted to make it free from errors like virus infection, corruption, file system errors, etc. You might format your flash drive accidentally instead of some hard drive partition when you connect it to Mac system for data access. Sometimes formatting errors might appear when you connect your flash card to computer and might result in formatting of flash drive and erases complete data from it.
- Corruption: Computer viruses are major cause for the corruption of flash drive. In addition to it, flash card file system corruption, improper plug and play procedure, incorrect data operations performed on flash drive, etc can corrupt flash drive and make data inaccessible.
- File Transfer Errors: Interruption that might occur during transfer of files from flash drive to computer or vice versa as result of sudden computer turn off, power failures and abrupt removal of flash drive might delete data from flash drive or can even damage it due to which data on flash drive becomes unreadable
Flash drive recovery utility is made up of powerful scan engine that scans flash drive and restores all files in few mouse clicks. It uses unique file signatures assigned each file type to identify and recover files lost from flash drive. You can also restore data from corrupted, formatted and reformatted USB flash drives with the aid of this software. You can execute picture recovery from corrupt SanDisk Cruzer USB drive and will also be able to get back photos, videos, songs, text files, emails, etc from flash drives on Mac computer. In addition, it supports file recovery on popular brands of USB drives like Transcend, Kingston, Lexar, Sony, HP and so on. Using this software, you can also recover data from corrupted flash drive with ease.
Apart from flash drives, it can be used to recover files from flash memory card in efficient way. XD, SD, SDHC, CF, Memory Sticks are different type of flash cards supported by this software to restore media files such as photos, videos and music files. It is possible to recover lost files from hard drives, external USB drives and iPod devices on Mac computer through the usage of flash drive recovery software. You will be able to preview the recovered files after the recovery process on its user interface, which help in estimating the performance of this software. This tool works compatibly on latest Mac operating systems including Mac OS X Leopard, Snow leopard and Lion.
Steps to restore lost flash drive data on Mac computer:
Step 1: Download and install Mac flash drive recovery software demo version on your PC and connect the flash drive from which you have lost data to Mac computer. Once you launch the software, the main window will be displayed with three options as shown in Figure 1. Select "Recover Volumes/Drives" option to carry out recovery process.
Figure 1: Choose Recover Volumes/Drive Option
Step 2: Choose "Formatted/Reformatted Recovery" option to recover data from flash drive as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Click on Formatted/Reformatted Recovery Option
Step 3: Select the flash drive as the volume from which data is to be retrieved and click on Next button as shown in Figure 3. After the volume is selected then the software will start searching for deleted / lost data from flash drive.
Figure 3: Select Flash Drive
Step 4: After completing scanning process, you can see the restored data from the flash drive as shown in Figure 4. You can also store the retrieved data from flash drive to any location accessible to host Mac system
Figure 4: View Recovered Data and Evaluate Recovery Results
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