Recover Files from Pen Drive

Software to Recover Deleted/Lost Files from Pen Drive

Pen drives are widely used as a portable device for data storage. As they are generally used for storing and accessing the data to/from the personal computers, they frequently get affected due to corruption. You have to use good file recovery software which restores deleted files on Windows XP. This recovery software is used largely to recover media files from SD card, XD card, pen drives, Firewire drives, etc. It makes use of advanced scanning technology to scan the entire drive of the device sector by sector to retrieve all the files that are lost or deleted accidentally by the user. Using this software, you can not only recover files but can also preview the recovered data prior to restoration. It can even recover data from formatted hard drive from RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5 partitions. The recovery of files can be done on partitions of different file systems such as FAT16, FAT32, ExtFAT, NTFS and NTFS5.

This software also facilitates to perform file recovery from external HDD. In case of accidental deletion of files using Shift+Delete option in Windows XP, this file recovery software can be comfortably used to retrieve accidentally deleted files from pen drives and other devices. You can say that, this deleted data recovery tool can be used for recovery of files in maximum number of data loss scenarios, of which some are listed below:

• Virus intrusion: Because of connecting to computers, pen drives can catch the virus files unintentionally over the network or due to virus infected computer.
• Improper removal: If pen drive is unplugged from the computer without using “Safely Remove Hardware” wizard, or when some read/write process is active on pen drive, chances of it getting corrupted is more thus leading to loss of data present on it.
• Write/erase cycles:  Pen drive uses flash memory and is made up of NAND components, the ability of which decreases as the number of write/erase cycles increases. So, the older your pen drive gets, it becomes less reliable leading to corruption of data.
• File system error: When you change the file system of your pen drive, some of the files present on it may get corrupted and becomes inaccessible to the host operating system.
• Improper system shut down: While accessing the pen drive, if the computer suddenly shuts down, some parts of files gets corrupted.

The Mac users can also recover data from Mac volumes and pen drives by using this Mac file recovery utility.

Following are the steps to use the Pen Drive Data Recovery Software:

Step 1: Install and launch the trial version of the software, main screen with three recovery options appears, as shown in Fig. 1. Select “RECOVER FILES” option.

Figure 1: Main Window

Step 2: As the next screen appears, select “RECOVER LOST FILES” option, as shown in Fig. 2, to recover the lost data from your pen drive.

Figure 2: Select RECOVER LOST FILES Option

Step 3: Now, a new window appears which displays the list of detected drives and external devices, as shown in Fig. 3. Select the drive for your pen drive and click “Next”.

Figure 3: Select Logical Drive

Step 4: Now, the software scans the drive and displays the list of data recovered from your pen drive, as shown in Fig. 4. The list can be viewed using either “File type view” or “Data view” option.

Figure 4: Preview Recovered Data

Step 5: After having the preview of recovered data, you can select the files which you want to save and click “Next” to purchase the full version of the software.