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RAW Toshiba USB Flash Drive / Toshiba USB Drive Requires Formatting
It is really troublesome to encounter a raw USB flash drive. We can not access files and folders saved on the USB flash drive, we can not store any new data on it, and we can not open the raw USB flash drive, and so forth. Maybe the biggest problem is to lose those files, because we can use the USB flash drive to save new information on it after formatting it. Data recovery software could help us solve the data loss problems, though. It could retrieve the lost data from the unformatted USB flash drive.
Example of Toshiba USB flash drive becoming raw
I have a Toshiba USB flash drive on which have been save a lot of files and folders. They mainly are word documents and pictures, which is useful and important for me. What I want to express now is that the USB flash drive shows raw drive error suddenly, which I have no idea how happens. I can not open it anymore no matter which way to use. My sister told I can use it if format the USB flash drive. But I wan to get what I have lost back. What should I do to retrieve them? -Lauren from Washington
How to get files back from the raw USB flash drive with the help of data recovery software
Data recovery software could retrieve files and folders from the USB flash drive which is not formatted, and later those lost contents will be restored quickly and safely. So we can solve the raw USB flash drive problem by restore the inaccessible information at first and then format the USB flash drive. Here are the steps below to show us the detail information:
Recover data from raw USB drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the USB flash drive the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Way to protect information saved on the USB flash drive from being lost
It is common to people that will try to avoid the same mistake as which have been made. So we will think of way to protect the data saved on the USB flash drive after it being experienced raw error. The way to protect information saved on the USB flash drive from being lost is namely use the USB flash drive correctly, because there is just the human reasons that can be controlled. Here are some guiding tips as follows to protect that data:
1. Plug the USB flash drive out of computer safely. Many people do not care the way they plug the USB flash drive out of computer, because they hold there is nothing need to be paid attention to. But they are wrong, actually. The incorrect removal may cause the data loss problem. The proper unplugging is to close all the related programs and then click on the USB flash drive icon, and at lat press the safely removal message.
2. Refuse the harmful and suspicious files and software saving on the USB flash drive. The best way to achieve that goal is to download and install the anti-virus software on the USB flash drive, and then it would not be infected by virus and worms. The consequence of virus infection is serious, such as all of those files become inaccessible, or turn to messy code, and so on.
3. Precaution. It is necessary to take precaution to protect data saved on the USB flash drive from being lost. The best way is to back up the useful files regularly. We can retrieve the lost contents quickly and easily if they have been lost, because some data loss situations seems inevitable and we do not know when will they be lost.
4. Other protections to data saved on the USB flash drive.
Popular brands of USB flash drive
Toshiba is a popular company which produces and sells various kinds of products, and USB flash drive is one of them. Expect from Toshiba, there are other manufactures and brands to design and sell the USB flash drive in the world. We should buy one from the reliable sites to use it smoothly. Here are some of them as follows: Kingston, SanDisk, Adata, Teclast, HP, PNY, Patriot, Apacer, Netac, SSK.
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