Hard Disk Recovery

USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, is a standard type of connection for many different kinds of devices. And, as USB flash drive gets larger and cheaper, more and more users use it to store data and transfer data. However, data stored on USB drive is not safe all time. Here, let’s see an example from Tom’s:

Yesterday, I stored some study materials on my USB flash drive. However, I mistakenly formatted this drive and then I could not access these study files. In this case, what should I do?

Here, there is no time for Tom to regret. He needs to try to find a suitable solution to recover lost data.

Solutions for USB Drive Data Recovery

In general, users can turn to professional data recovery companies and data recovery software to recover lost data.

Here, if users don’t want to spend much time learning a new app, they can resort to professional data recovery companies. However, users have to bear high costs and the risk of privacy leakage.

As a matter of fact, turning to a piece of simple data recovery software equipped with high security and excellent performance is a wise choice for most common users. MiniTool Power Data Recovery, an excellent data recovery program developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd., can help to quickly and easily recover lost data from USB flash drive without affecting the original data since this tool can keep data safe all the time even in case of sudden power outages. Besides, it offers wizard-based operation and simple interface, thus even a new user can use this tool to recover lost data. Furthermore, this data recovery software owns five data recovery modules which can help to recover data that have been lost in a variety of ways including mistaken deletion, accidental partition formatting, computer viruses invasion and other factors. Next, let’s see the detailed steps of data recovery.

How to Recover Data from USB Flash Drive

Note: before recovering USB drive data, we need to connect the target USB drive to our computer.
In the beginning, we need to download MiniTool Power Data Recovery from its official website and then install it on computer. After that, we can launch it to get the following window.

Five data recovery modules are displayed in the main interface, and we can select a suitable one according to actual needs to recover lost data. Here, in Tom’s case, we can select “Damaged Partition Recovery” to scan the USB drive.

In this interface, select the USB drive and then click “Full Scan” button to thoroughly scan it.

Finally, we need to select all desired data and then click “Save” button to store them on safe place.
Thus, we have finished recovering lost data from formatted USB flash drive.
In a word, with MiniTool Power Data Recovery, we can effectively recover lost data as long as lost data are not overwritten and data loss is not caused by hardware failure. And, it can help to recover 1GB data for free.