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Unformat Toshiba USB Flash Drive
What would you do if happen to encounter a USB flash drive not formatted? Generally, there are two options: format it or not format it. Both formatting and unformatting action you can not view the information saved on the USB flash drive. It seems that there is no efficient way to access those files and fix the USB flash drive to usable again. But the fact is there is a flexible too to solve such USB flash drive not formatted problem. It is data recovery software.
Example of meeting a USB flash drive not formatted
My USB flash drive needs to be formatted before I can use it. System prompts me that it is not formatted and asks me to format it right now when I plug the USB flash drive to the computer. I ignore this information and try to access files on the USB flash drive, but I even can not open it. I am not format the USB flash drive as asked, because I have to use the data on it. Is there any possibility to let my files and folders on the unformatted USB flash drive accessible? By the way, my USB flash drive is from Toshiba. -Yuen from New York
How to restore files and folders from unformatted USB flash drive with data recovery software
All those inaccessible files and folders could be viewed again under the help of data recovery tool. It could get back that information from the unformatted USB flash drive quickly and safely as long as it has not been overwritten by any new content. The following steps will teach you how to use it to perform data recovery:
Recover data from formatted Toshiba usb drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, insert the Toshiba USB flash drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Various formatting problems may happen to USB flash drive
Format is really an annoying word to hear, especially our USB flash drive is formatted by accident or appear unformat error. But it is also an useful tool for us. For example, it could help us anti-virus if our USB flash drive is infected by virus and worms. There are some common formatting problems may happen to USB flash drive as follows. We can avoid its occurrence sometimes if careful enough after knowing them. Here are they:
1. The USB flash drive is formatted by intention. We may format the USB flash drive on the purpose of deleting all its files and folders, or in order to anti-virus, or other reasons. It is right to format it at that time, but what we should do is to make it clear whether files on the USB flash drive are useful or whether there is any backup. We can format it until make sure no important information will be lost due to the intentional formatting.
2. The USB flash drive is formatted by mistake. Sometimes we may format the USB flash drive accidentally. For example, we may click on the format all or format button by error when intend to perform other operations, such as copy or cut the information. So we should be careful when operate the USB flash drive.
3. The USB flash drive need to be formatted before normal using. This is the USB flash drive problem as example above that the USB flash drive s unformatted. It may due to the virus infection, system error or other reasons. Fortunately, we can get back those lost files with the data recovery program.
4. The USB flash drive is not formatted completely. Sometimes when we format the USB flash drive, the system may prompt us that windows can not complete the formatting after some minutes. Then the USB flash drive turns to problematic. We can restore the lost data with data recovery tool and format it by using the formatter to format it
5. Other USB related flash drive formatting problems.
Brief introduction to Toshiba
Toshiba is a comprehensive manufacture of massive kind of produces. The USB flash drive is one of its products. Toshiba located in Japan, and it is the biggest manufacture of semiconductor in Japan. It is created in 1875. Apart from USB flash drive, Toshiba also produce and sell the computer, semiconductor, phone, and other kind of products.
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