
USB drives break, they fail outright, they snap, they get lost. I don't know how many times I had people in my store in various stages of grief (sometimes even crying, los photos, assignments, critical work projects, theses, you name it) because of losing data the same way you just did. It's not difficult to automate this process so all your important work is always in the cloud.Įven just a second USB would be safer than what you are doing A basic data safe workflow would be store your 20gb in the cloud AND on your HDD AND on your USB. The mistake you are making is probably not how you use the stick but the faulty assumption any single storage medium is safe.Ĭloud storage is free / cheap and easy to access. There is so much that can go wrong With any storage medium. To be frank, it's insanity to believe data is going to be safe on a USB stick. A backup is a copy in a different location. Never ever have a single copy of important files. I'm wondering why did my USB do this in the first place and how can I prevent it? I'm wondering if there is there a legit way to get back my files from my USB, along with why my files were deleted in the first place since I am now worried about plugging in my other USB into my mac. Yes I know that I can pay for these softwares but I have no money atm.
#USB FLASH DRIVE DATA RECOVERY DFW SOFTWARE#
Once it scanned my USB and I tried clicking recover, they both took me to a page to pay some $80-100 to buy their software even though they're advertising as "Free" These programs are Disk Drill, and iboysoft.
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I attempted to download two "FREE" Data recovery softwares but they were all lies. Choose your flash drive and select the version you want to restore. Right-click on the folder and choose Properties. I am not sure why this happened since I didn't delete anything from my flash drive. Follow these steps to recover data using Files History: Insert the USB and locate the folder you want to recover data from.

Once your USB memory stick connected, select it from the Removable Drives and choose the file types under Check of file types. Now, you just choose the file types you wish to recover and where you want them recovered from. The storage on the USB went from 7GB to 31GB stating that I had 0 items on it. Step 2: Choose the data types and flash drive to scan. I put some 20+ GB on this flash drive with ll of my important software developer files, and with my music files. The message that i got was "Disk ejected improperly" This has happened before many times but this time, when I plugged back in my USB flash drive, all of my files were gone. When that failed, he went and purchased another diagnostic piece of hardware at his cost. Hi guys, yesterday my usb accidentally disconnected from my Mac Air. When the issue that the external disk drive would not connect to my laptop was reproduced on his, he was able to pull the drive from the enclosure and use cables to try to recover data.
