This morning, a dreaded data loss happened to my USB drive when I planned to transferred some business data to my laptop. After inserting USB drive to one of the ports, the system displayed the warning information: the device needs to be formatted. Those data in the drive means a lot to me, so I want to recover data from USB drive needing formatting.
When coming across those situations: hard drive crash and there is no backup available after reformatting a drive, users can rely on data recovery software. How it works? Windows uses a hidden index on hard drives, USB drives and memory cards to access files instead of searching through the entire drive for a requested file. However, the index entry can be damaged and then system can no longer find corresponding files even if the files themselves are intact. In such cases, users can get the index reestablished with data recovery tools and then recover lost data as long as they are not overwritten. At this time, the selection of software directly decides the likelihood of success of data recovery. Thus, users are supposed to choose a highly competent and reliable one. Here, professional hard disk recovery software named MiniTool Power Data Recovery is of high recommendation.
It enables users to recover data lost due to soft errors such as mistaken deleting, formatting, partitioning and computer virus infection. Besides excellent recovery capacity, wide compatibility, high reliability and outstanding operability are attractive as well. Let’s see the example of formatted drive data recovery.
Before recovering data, users need to download a piece of data recovery software and then install it to appropriate place. After that, take these steps:
Step 1. Connect the problem USB drive to computer and make sure that it can be detected. Then, launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery to open the main console displayed as follows:
Step 2. In the main interface, choose the most suitable functional module. To recover data from drive needing formatting, we choose and click “Damaged Partition Recovery” module.
Step 3. In the operational console, locate the partition where problem device is and click “Full Scan” button to completely scan it.
Step 4. When scanning is done, all possible damaged partitions will be listed out. At this time, choose the partition which is suggested most and click “Show Files” to open.
Step 5. Here, check all desired data from all list ones. Then, click “Save Files” button to specify a secure location to save those data.
The demonstration above is about how to recover data from USB drive needing formatting with MiniTool hard disk recovery software. After several steps, users have got lost data recovered. If same or similar issue happens, just download the software via the quick link here to fix.