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USB Flash Drive/Stick Became Raw Corrupted Due to Power Outage
Have you ever met the unpleasant situation about USB flash drive because of power outage? It become raw corrupted, for example. You can not access any information saved on the USB flash drive once it become raw corrupted. What if you have saved massive precious and valuable data on it but have no backup? You need to get them back without doubt. But how, how to achieve it? You should ask data recovery software for help if you are still bothered by this problem.
Example of losing information from the raw corrupted USB flash drive after power outage
I am just start to use USB flash drive few days ago and I backup files on the drive E on it and then I format the drive E to store new files. But I can not open the USB flash drive now. What's going on? I have not done anything wrong as far as I can remember. The only abnormal thing is that my computer experienced an unwanted power outage yesterday. But I did not reboot the computer and did not plug the USB flash drive out of the computer. What should I do? -Howard from New York
Way to restore files from the raw corrupted USB flash drive with data recovery software
Data saved on the raw corrupted USB flash drive could be retrieved by data recovery software quickly and efficiently if it suffered an unexpected power failure. It will not cost much your time as a matter of fact. Here are the guidance steps to restore information from the raw corrupted USB flash drive below:
Recover data from raw usb flash drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Connect the USB flash drive to your computer and launch the software. Then, select a proper recovery module.
Other data loss scenarios may happen to USB flash drive
Except from it turns to raw and get corrupted due to the accidental power failure, there are a number of other data loss situations may happen to the USB flash drive. So we may lose our crucial files and folders saved on the USB flash drive with a big chance. Here are some common data losses scenarios happen to the USB flash drive as follows:
1. Accidental or intentional formatting on the USB flash drive.
2. Unintentional or minded deletion to files saved on the USB flash drive.
3. Virus infection. It could due to the usage of pirated software or suspicious files on the USB flash drive.
4. Corruption due to the USB flash drive being pulled out while your device is on
5. Data loss happens during the process of cut and paste.
6. USB drive needs to be formatted
7. Other similar data loss situations.
Different raw USB flash drive cases
We have known that the USB flash drive may turn to raw if there is a power outage when it is working. So are there any other cases that could change the USB flash drive to raw? Of course there are such situations when we use our USB flash drive. Here are some of them as follows:
1. An unwanted power outage happens to the computer when the USB flash drive still insert to it.
2. Data saved on the USB flash drive is infected by virus and worms.
3. System error when the computer and USB flash drive attached.
4. Other similar raw USB flash drive cases.
Brief introduction to USB flash drive
USB flash drive, also called pen drive, is one of the storage devices to save files quickly. It is called USB flash drive because that it could be connected to the computer with USB port. And it also is called thumb drive due to its size. It is as large as one thumb only. Now its maximum storage volume adds up to 1T. But the biggest advantage of the USB flash drive is: unlike some other storage devices, it nearly never happens to water and dust infiltration problem or get scratches.
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