A USB flash drive, popularly known as a pen drive, is a plug-n-play portable storage device that can be very handy. When you plug the flash drive in the USB port, it is detected as a removable drive and a drive letter is assigned to it. The low-power consuming flash drive has become reasonably popular because it is cheap and small. These days the flash drives are available for up to 256 GB, which is, no doubt, a lot of space. However, as they say, nothing is perfect in this world. The flash drives are prone to corruption, at times. This could happen because of various reasons such as virus infections, human errors, power outages, damaged operating system, etc. In such cases, you should consider using a third-party Hard Drive Recovery software for the Hard Drive Data Recovery.

Consider a scenario wherein you have a flash drive that contains about 8 GB of data including important documents, video files, photos, etc. You give it to one of your friends and when you get it back, you insert it in the USB port. The system detects the flash drive but flashes an error message, that is: “Disk/drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it?”

Now, you do not want to format the flash drive, for obvious reasons. And you have no idea how this error message is getting displayed. All you want is to recover the data that is in the flash drive.

Cause:

If it had been a hard disk, then would have been a case of accidental deletion of the partition. But this being a USB drive, the above stated may not be the case. It is quite possible that the issue is with the USB port and not the drive itself.

Resolution:

If the issue is because of the USB port, then try to connect the flash drive to the motherboard. You never know it may work that ways as sometimes the wiring between the motherboard USB header and the ports do not work properly with the USB drives.

However, if this is not the case then it is a case of raw recovery of the USB drive. For this, you should use a third-party software that enables hard drive recovery. Such recovery tools employ fast yet sophisticated algorithms to ensure that no data is lost while scanning.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software is a robust tool that can recover about 185 different types of lost files and partitions. The Hard Drive Recovery software is also capable of recovering mail items from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It supports various storage media like USB flash drives, external hard drives, memory cards, and iPods. This Hard Drive Data Recovery tool is bundled with a Boot CD that can be used to boot the system if the operating system crashes. The recovery tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, 2003 Server, XP, and NT.