How to recover files from USB flash drive formatted by mistake

After the USB flash drive is formatted, be careful not to write new data into it.

If you don't want to go to a commercial data recovery company for reasons such as data privacy, you can try to DIY yourself as described below.

Below I recommend you a few free data recovery programs. Of course, if you are good at English, you can use the recommended free program in English.

The Chinese interface is:

1. Aomei Partition Master: It has the function of recovering lost partitions. It can be used for the recovery of partitions that have been accidentally deleted.

2. DiskGenius is a professional-grade data recovery software, and it comes with a free version. Powerful! Support file loss and partition loss recovery in a variety of situations; Support file preview; Support advanced data recovery functions such as sectors, RAID recovery, etc.

3. testdisk is recommended, although it is foreign software, but with a Chinese interface. Completely open source and free.

4. PC Inspector File Recovery also has a Chinese interface, a free tool from Germany.

5. Unstoppablecopier has Chinese interface support, completely free.

The English tools are:

Free Undelete is free for individual users.

Edata Unerase is completely free.

Of course, in the case that you are not sure or feel that it is more cumbersome, Hongmeng still recommends that you go to a professional data recovery company for help.

There are two main ways to recover USB flash drive data:

1. Restore from a backup

That is, to restore the original data through a backup file in your computer's hard drive or cloud storage. It's very simple, completely autonomous, and it's quick and effective, with little to no failure. But it has a very harsh premise, that is, users need to back up the files in the USB flash drive to the computer hard drive or the cloud in advance.

Without this careful preparation, this method would not have been possible.

2. Use a professional USB flash drive data recovery tool

For users who have not backed up in advance, formatting the data in the USB flash drive is not unrecoverable. There is also a wonderful way to help get back the data lost due to formatting, and that is to do USB flash drive data recovery by using a professional data recovery.

Let's take it directlyEasy to get data recoveryLet's take a look at the steps.

Step 1: Connect the formatted USB flash drive to your computer.

Note: After the USB flash drive is formatted by mistake, remember not to perform any new read or write operations on the USB flash drive to avoid data corruption.

Step 2: Run the software, select the "Formatted Disk by Mistake" function to enter, and then select us to connect to the computer USB flash drive.

Step 3: Select the file types you need to recover, and click Scan after selecting them.

Step 4: After the scan is completed, there is a lot of data, find the files that you think are more important and must be recovered, preview them, and preview them normally, it means that the files can be recovered, after confirming the files you want to recover, check them and click the recovery button below, so that all the data can be restored to the computer.

When the one-click U disk installation system is completed, the Win7 system can work normally. However, when using the USB flash drive, it may be accidentally formatted, resulting in the loss of some important data, so can you get it back? Let's take a look at the USB flash drive formatted by mistake.

Common recovery methods.

1. Once the U disk is accidentally formatted, don't worry too much, and don't add information to it, which may lead to the overwriting of the information, and it will be more difficult to recover, at this time what we need to do is to find the U disk letter and double-click.

2. After opening it, you will be very surprised, it turns out that all the files that were deleted by mistake are here.

3. At this time, a dialog box will appear in the interface, which has two options: scan for deletion and scan for formatted files, at this time, click on the file below, because this is the file you formatted, you must be careful about this.

4. After scanning, we see the files that were formatted by ourselves before, and then save the important files and delete the useless ones.

5. In the process of saving the file, it is necessary to operate correctly according to the relevant prompts, so as to ensure that all the formatted files are recovered.