How to recover data from Pen Drive

Pen Drive gives us significant convenience in today’s business life. However, due to human errors or other reasons, we often meet embarrassed phenomena of losing Pen Drive data. The following are some typically cases in our daily business life.

Practical cases:

1.    Pen drive still contain all data, and the space shows the same like before, but all files and folders in the pen drive are changed to shortcut.

Cause: Your pen drive was attacked by virus

Resolution one: If you often use Pen Drive to transfer data from one computer to another, make sure the computer is well protected. If any computer is not protected against virus attacks, the files and folders in Pen Drive may be gone or just change into shortcut. If that happens, don’t panic, you can still get back lost data, Firstly, remove the virus, connect your Pen Drive to one PC that is protected with a good antivirus and then scan it, fix all the virus threats that are detected by the antivirus, After completing scanning, some of the useful files or folders may deleted. Secondly, use pen drive data recovery program to recover deleted infected files.

Resolution two: If you can’t delete virus in Pen Drive, just format Pen Drive and then use data recovery program to retrieve data.

2.    When transfer files from Pen Drive to PC, mistakenly removed the Pen Drive from USB port and some data lost, or press “format” command during the process of using Pen Drive. Sometimes, delete data in Pen Drive in one day and find it is useful in another day and want to recover them.

Cause: Human error

Resolution: The data you once have saved in your pen drive is real hard to remove completely. First thing to do is stop using the Pen Drive as the chances of your data being overwritten increase as time goes on. Then choose a perfect data recovery program. There are many Pen Drive data recovery program in the internet. Although I haven’t tested them one by one, Card Data Recovery is the most popular one in these days.

Steps to recover data from Pen Drive using Card Data Recovery

1.    Plug the Pen Drive into your computer using USB port;

2.    Download Card Data Recovery and install it on your computer;

3.    Check whether your Pen Drive disk display in your computer;

4.    Select your Pen Drive;

Run Card Data Recovery and continue the operation under the interface instruction.

Famous Data Recovery Software to Rescue Lost photos and Data

Causes lead to loss data

For Windows and USB

1.       Virus attack

2.       Wrong operation

3.       Reinstallation of windows system

4.       Suddenly electricity cutting off

For camera cards

1.       Mistakenly delete photos

2.       Accidently press “format” button

3.       Shut down camera due to low battery power before save photos

4.       Shot photos before another is not saved well

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What should we do if lost data?

1.       Stop any operations that may rewrite data on disk that lost data ever been.

2.       Ask professional man to help you get back data or download suitable data recovery program to rescue data by yourself. Before recovering the data, we should know the file format of lost data.

Common Windows Data Recovery Software

1.       Recuva
This is a free file recovery program that makes it extremely easy to locate files that were once thought to be lost forever. It can recover lost data by wrong operation and computer freezing from computer, memory card and mp3 player. Recuva supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS file systems. However, freeware has limitation in functions of data rescue; sometimes, it can not scan out all the files and fully recover them.

2.       Card Data Recovery

This program is the professional card data recovery utility. It can recover lost pictures or files from all kinds of cards including memory cards, SD card, CF card, XD card, SIM card. Besides, you can also use it to rescue data from computer hard drives, USB, memory sticks, etc. The program is very easy to use, even you are a green one for PC, you can use it freely. It is much cheaper than abnormal data recovery, only needs $19.95, you can get back precious images back.

3.       R-Studio

R-studio is professional premium software for data recovery sold at $79.99. Its trial version allows you recover data files less than 64kb. You can preview the files more than 64kb by double clicks. It supports FAT/NTFS (Windows), HFS/HFS+ (Mac), UFS1/UFS2 & Ext2FS/3FS file systems and functions on local and network disks, even if partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted.

4.       Power Data Recovery

Power Data Recovery is easy-to-use and professional software to recover read-only files. It can recover data lost by common problems. For example, wrong delete files, format partition, system collapse, virus and so on. Power Data Recovery supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. It’s also sold at $79.99.

5.       iCare Undelete Free

iCare Undelete Free is used to recover data erased accidentally, emptied from recycle bin and deleted by clicking SHIFT+DELETE for free. It can run on Windows Server 2008, 2003, 2000, XP and Vista system. Recoverable files will list on the left of software window and they can be recovered automatically by 1-click operation. iCare Undelete Free has function of preview, too.

6.       Recover My Files

Recover My Files specializes in recovering text document, picture document, music and video files and zip compressed files. It supports following file formats: mpegpdf, pmd, png, ppt, pst, pub, rar, rtf, sdr, tar, txt, tiff, viso, wav, wmf, wpd, xls, zdp, zip, asf, avi, bmp, csv doc, dbx, dwg, gif, gzip, html, jpeg, mdb, mov and mp3. If your deleted files belong to this range, Recover my files will be a good choice. Free to try, and charge for $69.95.

7.       FreeUndelete

FreeUndelete is free Windows data recovery software for files accidentally deleted on a NTFS (used by default in Windows XP/2000/NT) and FAT32 file systems. It has simple functions, and can only recover data that is emptied from recycle bin.

How to Recover Photos from CF Card?

CF card is widely used by digital camera for its larger size, from about 512MB to 64GB, lower cost as well as faster speed, which allows digital camera shoot under special conditions, such as moving objects. The most popular and trusted brands for CF Cards including Kingston, Ritek Ridata, SanDisk, Transcend, Apacer, Viking, and Lexar.

Reasons of lost photos
Lost photos in CF cards can be caused by many reasons: card damage, failure, corrupt, etc. and the following are some typical phenomena.

• 1. Accidently selected "Format" on your digital camera and erased all the pictures on the CF card.
• 2. Turning off the camera before the image is completely written to the CF Card
• 3. Receiving an error message like “card not formatted”, “card not found” or “no images found”
• 4. Keeping take photographs when the camera battery is at the end of its life.
• 5. When upload images to computer, mistakenly judge the finish of uploading and eject the CF card ahead of time.
• ......

How to recover lost photos from CF card?
Before recovery, you should know that your photos are not erased actually. It stored on CF card as a file. When you format the card or deleted photos from the card, the data on which the images were stored is not deleted. It only allows new pictures to take its place. Therefore, make sure not taking new photographs any more in case that the previous photos would be overwritten.

Data Recovery program like Card Data Recovery can help you get back pictures from CF Card easily. Download Card Data Recovery and Install it on your PC. Take out the CF card from digital camera and connect it to your laptop or connect digital camera to PC directly. (If your desktop or laptop has a built-in card reader, things will be much easier, if not, you need a card reader to help you.) Then your CF card appears as a drive letter when you go to “My computer” If you see this, it means Card Data Recovery can access and recover your pictures. Select “photo” and scan your CF card. The process is quick and all recoverable images will be listed with the same signature. Preview the photos before recovery and restore what you wanted.

Besides retrieve photos, Card Data Recovery also can recover video, music, files, etc. Popular video and audio formats like MOV, FLV, AVI, WAV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, etc. are available with it.

How to Recover Lost Data From a USB Drive?

USB Drives are commonly used by people for it is conveniently to take along, typically removable and rewritable. In 2010, the storage capacities of USB drive had reached to as large as 256GB. The size and price as well as its price well meet the needs of people. It becomes an indispensible tool not only for business man but also students, engineers, etc.

USB Drives are often used to contain documents, video files, music collections, etc. we accustomed to save files to it in order to view them anywhere. On one hand, it really helps us very much. However, On the other hand, like an old saying goes, nothing is perfect in the world. The USB drives are prone to corruption. Software virus attacks, damaged file system, power outages, improper shutdown, human errors, etc often result in losing data.

It is really awesome when you insert your USB into PC, and the screen continually pops up with the window “Disk/drive is not formatted, do you want to format it?” or after you take the USB back from your friend, unfortunately find some favorite songs are mistakenly deleted.

If that happens, firstly, take it easy. Do not use the USB Drive again to reduce the risk of the file being overwritten before recovering the data. Secondly, find the real reason of the problem. If you can open USB Drive again and only find some files missing, things will be easier. Just use USB data recovery tool to help you. If it displays the message:”Disk/drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it?”, please check whether it is the problem of USB port or a case of raw recovery of the USB drive first. For the first one, connect the drive to the motherboard to see if everything goes well. If it is the later, you should use the third party software that enables hard drive recovery. 

Card Data Recovery is the professional data recovery program employ sophisticated algorithms to scan data with individual file signatures ensuing no data is lost while scanning. Deleted files as well as files in formatted USB Drive can be easily got back. Moreover, it supports various storage media including memory cards, MP3, MP4, mobile phones, iPods, etc.