How to recover information from a USB flash drive

A lot of users at one time faced with the fact that flash drives are rather capricious in operation. Of course, they do not go out of service every day, but it happens not so rarely. As a rule, people are reconciled with the fact of data loss, but there are situations when recovery of information from a flash drive is vital.

You do not have to go far for examples: the same lost photos from rest, birthday of the child or memorable family photos are very important, and therefore for their return from digital non-existence people are ready to pay any money.

However, to pay for the recovery of information from a USB flash drive in most cases is not necessary, since you can handle it yourself. Information about all the subtleties of the process is in our article.

At once we will warn, that some actions of users reduce probability of successful return of the data to zero. So, if you inserted a USB flash drive into a computer, but got information that it should be formatted to continue working, you can not agree with this!

So you can finally say goodbye to your documents. In addition, in no case can not write to it any data, because in this case, the successful recovery of information from the USB flash drive is not guaranteed.

Today we will look at a couple of simple and free programs that can help you cope with this unpleasant problem. The first in our list will be "Recuva". This is a very famous and completely free for non-commercial use utility, the creator of which is the company "Piriform", already beloved by domestic users for its "cleaner" "CCleaner".

So, the program for recovering information on a USB flash drive has been downloaded and installed. Launch the application, paying attention to the upper left corner: there is a drop-down list in which you can select the disk information on which you want to restore.

After that, find the "Analysis" button, located just to the right of the list we mentioned, click it and get ready to wait. The operating time depends on the volume of the removable disk, the number of deleted files and other factors.

After the end of the process, you will see a list of deleted documents that the program can try to recover. Mark the ones you need, and then start restoring the deleted information from the USB flash drive by clicking on the well-known "Restore" button. Note! Before doing this, you will be asked to choose the path to save the found files. In no event should you use the same disc on which they were found for this purpose!

Our second applicant for the title of "best free recovery" is the application "R.saver". Very pleased that it is completely free of charge for residents of the former CIS. The utility does not require installation, it is extremely easy to use. The very recovery of information from the flash drive is carried out by analogy with the above described algorithm, since the interface for these programs is similar.

Please note that during analysis and data recovery it is extremely undesirable to turn off the computer power, and therefore it is better to protect yourself from the vagaries of power engineers by installing a good UPS or working with a laptop.