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Quick Formatted Kingston USB Flash Drive
Have you ever quick formatted your Kingston USB flash drive for some reasons, such as by mistake, in order to delete all files saved on it, and so forth? What if you remember there still are files useful saved on the USB flash drive after being quick formatted? Have you looked for ways to retrieve those lost files from the quick formatted USB flash drive and have you ever been successful? In fact, the data recovery software can get back your loss with 100% guarantee.
Example of Kingston USB flash drive being quick formatted
I quick formatted my Kingston USB flash drive so as to give it to my brother, because he lent it to me. But when I complete the formatting did I realize that I have not backup the needed data saved on the USB flash drive. I have to get them back now. The question is that I don't know whether those lost files could be retrieved from the quick formatted USB flash drive few days later. Anyone could kindly help me restore them, as I need to use them now? Thank you. –Loren from New York
How to restore files from the quick formatted USB flash drive by data recovery software
The lost files could be retrieved from the quick formatted USB flash drive without doubt. What you need is data recovery software, which is a kind of magic data recovery tool. All the lost information could be restored under the help of data recovery software as long as they are not overwritten by new data. Here are its steps as follows:
Recover data from formatted USB flash drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can connect the USB flash drive to your computer and run the software and select proper recovery module.
Way to protect data on USB flash drive lost due to formatting error
As we have talked before that the USB flash drive is quick formatted can because of many different reasons, such as in order to delete all files saved on it quickly, or by accident, and so on. We can conclude that there are many chances we may lose our precious or valuable information saved on the USB flash drive. So we must be careful to avoid such formatted problem which leads to data loss situations. Here are some ways to protect it as follows:
1. Backup the important or precious files and folders saved on the USB flash drive regularly. You can backup them on a safe disk on the computer or other storage devices. So you can get them back quickly if the USB flash drive is quick formatted, even other data loss problem.
2. Think twice if you intend to quick format or complete format the USB flash drive. You should take the some things into consideration. For instance, do you have any backup? If there is backup on other drives check it and format the USB flash drive after making sure al needed files are here. Of course, there also are other things need to be considered according to you own situation.
3.Do not format the USB flash drive if you are asked to before the files saved on it have not been retrieved. Sometime, you will say prompt on the screen like you need to format the disk in drive R before you can use it when you plug your USB flash drive into the computer and try to open it. Then system will give you two options, format and cancel. Please click on the cancel button if there are files important on the USB flash drive. You can get them back with data recovery software and then format it.
4. Be careful when you perform operations on data saved on the USB flash drive such as deletion or others. Some quick formatted USB flash drive due to accidental, which come from careless. So click the option when make suer what it
Different kind of storage devices that Kingston sells
Kingston owns more than 2000 kind of storage devices nowadays, and those storage devices support computer, MP3 player, digital cameras, phones, server, printer and nearly all devices which can use storage devices. Those storage devices include external hard disk, USB flash drive, memory card (such as CF card, SD card and so on) and other kind of memory devices.
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