Audio File Recovery from Kingston USB Drive

In the high tech and fast-paced world where everything is digital, having a USB drive for storing files and data has become an important part of our life. Kingston USB drive is an electronic flash storage device or a non-volatile device used for storing digital information. They are smaller in size and are portable. USB drive is a re-writable device and it has a brilliant feature of retaining data without the use of external power. Including Kingston there are many other different companies that manufacture USB drive such as Sony, Transcend, HP, SanDisk, etc. USB (Universal Serial Bus) drives are also called as Pen drives. Hard drives on the other hand are also storage devices which are used to store operating system, system files and application software. The main difference between hard drive and USB drive is that, a USB drive can store application but cannot be used to run system level applications.

 

The USB drives are integrated with Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. It uses FAT32 file format for storing and manipulating files on it. As USB drives are used for storing important backup files such as video, image, audio files or for transferring files from one system to another. Even after handling the USB drives with care, you still tend to lose files from them, as they are vulnerable to data loss. In this scenario to restore music files from corrupted Kingston USB drive, you need an appropriate software that can recover flash drive files efficiently. There are many circumstances, which contribute to major data loss from USB drive.

Factors leading to data loss from USB drive are as follows:

• Unintentional Formatting: If you have accidentally formatted your USB drive then the entire files present on the it such as audio or video files is deleted and it leads to data loss.
• Antivirus Scanning: Antivirus scanning can also lead to deletion of audio files. For example, When you connect a USB drive to your system your antivirus software starts scanning the drive. If it finds any virus in folders or files which may harm your system it will delete the complete folder containing files, which may result in data loss.
• Defragmentation Failure: Defragmentation is the process of re-arranging the files and disk space into contiguous locations in order to reduce the disk space. If this process is not completed successfully or fails due to some errors then there may be chances of files getting lost or erased.
• Power Surge: While saving your audio files on your system hard drive, if suddenly your PC gets switched off due to power fluctuations, this situation may lead to data loss from your USB drive.

To overcome the above mentioned scenarios you need to protect your computers power with UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply). Make sure that your computer is shut down properly. Avoid forcing the computer to turn off by pressing and holding the power button. Dont save any new files on your affected USB drive because it may overwrite the files on your drive. Once if it is overwritten then its not possible to recover files from the drive. But still you can recover files from Kingston USB drive by using good file recovery software.

 

USB recovery software is a powerful software helps you to restore files by scanning the entire drive within few minutes. This tool has an ability to recognize and recover files based on their unique signatures. This application can restore files from SanDisk flash cards after format error or any other data loss issues. The software also supports data recovery from MMCs, SD cards, XD cards, compact flash cards etc. This file recovery software can recover more than 280 file types and also supports recovery of files from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, ExtFAT drive. Before buying this utility you can download the demo version to evaluate how the software recovers your lost or deleted files. This recovery tool facilitates you to restore files from hard drives, external drives, memory cards, iPods, FireWire, etc. Moreover, if you want to restore lost data from Mac OS then you must use reliable Mac data recovery software which can efficiently retrieve USB drive data on Macintosh. You can utilize this software as Mac USB flash drive recovery tool to get back lost files from flash drive on Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion.

 

Follow the steps given below to recover files from Kingston USB Drive:

 

Step 1: Download and launch recovery software in your system having USB Drive inserted in it. Click on Recover Photos option from the options available after launching the software as shown in Figure 1.

 

Figure 1: Select Recover Photos Option

 

Step 2: Choose Recover Lost Photos option from the screen shot as shown in Figure 2.

 

Figure 2: Select Recover Lost Photos Option

Step 3: After selecting relevant option, you have to choose the USB Drive as the logical drive and click on Next button as shown in Figure 3. The software starts scanning the USB Drive.

 

Figure 3: Select Drive

 

Step 4: Clicking on "Next"opens a new window which displays a list of file types. You can perform an additional search for files based on their unique signature by selecting the file types provided. You can also skip this process by selecting the "Skip" option and continue with the regular scanning process as shown in Figure 4.

 

Figure 4: Select File Type

Step 5: After the scanning process is over you can view the recovered files from USB Drive as well as evaluate the recovery results as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Recovered Files

 

Note: You can save the recovered data only in purchased version of this software. Demo version is only meant for evaluation of the recovery chances of lost / deleted data.