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Unformat SanDisk USB Flash Drive
Have you ever troubled by the unformat USB flash drive? You must remember it if you have experienced, because there is nothing you can do to an unformatted USB flash drive, which impressed you deeply. But you will not be troubled by the unformat USB flash drive no matter you have bothered by it or you are suffering it now. there is a tool which could get back the information saved on the USB flash drive previously. Actually, that is data recovery software.
Example of SanDisk USB flash drive not being formatted
I have a SanDisk USB flash drive on which have saved a lot of precious files. I use the USB flash drive nearly every day to access its information. But it has not been able to be opened since yesterday. I try to start it just now, but turn in vain. I lose those files and folders on the USB flash drive. System keeps prompting me to format the USB flash drive if I want to use it. But I don't intend to do until all data on it become accessible. What should I do? Help me, please. –Rain from Washington
How to get back lost files from the unformatted USB flash drive with data recovery software
It is not an irresolvable problem that USB flash drive shows unformat and need to be formatted before it is usable. As a matter of fact, those inaccessible files and folders saved on the unformatted USB flash drive have an opportunity to be retrieved by data recovery software. Here are the steps as follows to guide you how to perform:
Recover data from formatted USB drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, insert the USB flash drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Different data loss situations may happen to USB flash drive
We may lose the information saved on the USB flash drive accidentally. Just as the example above that the USB flash drive become unformat and need to be formatted before we can use it. Actually, there are a number of other data loss scenarios may happen to the USB flash drive, too. We can do something to avoid such unpleasant data loss situations. But at first, we should figure it out that how many kinds of data loss cases we may meet when use the USB flash drive. Here are some of them as follows:
1. The USB flash drive turns to raw. Like an unformatted USB flash drive, the raw USB flash drive also can not be opened and to access its information. As a result, we could kind of say that we lose those files and folders saved on the USB flash drive previously. The reasons that USB flash drive becomes to raw are various, virus infection is one of them.
2. System corruption. There may something goes wrong to the computer operating system. Consequently, we can not use the computer before the system turn to normal. Information saved on the USB flash drive may be lost if it happen to connect to the computer when the system goes wrong.
3. Accidental deletion and formatting. Files saved on the USB flash drive may be deleted by mistake or the USB flash drive itself may be formatted by error, and then lead to the data loss trouble. Normally, those lost files and folders could be retrieved by data recovery tool as long as they have not been overwritten.
4. Abrupt removal. It is not strange that files may be lost if the USB flash drive was removed from the computer suddenly, especially when it is in the process of read and write. So we should plug the USB flash drive and other storage devices out of the computer safely to avoid such data loss error.
5. Other data loss situations happen to USB flash drive. For example, virus attacks, power failure, and so on.
Brief introduction to SanDisk
SanDisk is an America transnational corporation, which mainly design and sell flash memory devices, such as USB flash drive, memory card, and so forth. It is founded in 1988 and located in California. The main products of SanDisk are CF card, SD card, TF card, USB flash drive, memory stick, card reader, SSD, mp3 player and so on currently.
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