How to Recover Pen Drive Data Deleted by Antivirus?

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. For example, data was deleted by antivirus, files and folders changed into shortcut, etc. While meet these problems, take it easy, the article below tells you how to recover pen drive data.

Practical case:

Your pen drive was attacked by virus, although the space shows the same like before, all files and folders in the pen drive are changed to shortcut. After connecting it to PC and scanning it with antivirus program, your precious data including photos, video, songs or documents disappeared.

Resolution:

Before recovering data from pen drive, make sure all the virus threats that are detected by the antivirus program. If the virus can’t be deleted completely, you had better format the pen drive first and then use data recovery program to retrieve data.If the virus deleted completely, you can use the third party pen drive data recovery software to get back the lost data directly. There are many data recovery tool in the internet. I recommend Card Data Recovery for Windows for Windows users and Card Data Recovery for Mac for Mac users. Both are very easy to use with significant function. They offer special recovery mode to recover photos, video, audio and documents from pen drives with different brands.  Within the following simple steps, you can retrieve your lost data.

Step1. Download and run the right version of Card Data Recovery on your computer, then plug the pen drive to the PC, and scan it with the program. (Card Data Recovery allows you to scan photos, video, or audio separately or scan them all at once)

Step2. You can see all recoverable data are listed in the task list, preview them to see whether that are what you wanted.

Step3. Select the file and click “recover”. In consideration of safety, when saving the recovered data, you had better choose another place like computer hard drive, other external devices. Never save them to the pen drive where you are recovering files now.

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.