A USB drive is considered a very reliable storage medium, but even it does not guarantee its absolute safety. The crashes that this type of drive is susceptible to can destroy any file recorded on the USB drive. How so
to recover files from a flash drive? There are several reliable and uncomplicated methods for this.
First you need to make sure that important information is really deleted. Sometimes the files recorded on USB are simply not visible, which means that a virus has started up on the USB flash drive. For hidden files to appear, you need to go to the "Folder Options" menu through the context menu , and then on the "View" tab, allow the system to show hidden files and prevent the system from hiding. To do this, select the item and remove the “checkmark” in the “Advanced Settings” window. Hidden or system files on a flash drive should not be. If they did appear, then this is a virus. It should be isolated or cleaned with an antivirus program. You can “show” hidden files not only through the “Folder Options”, but also using the Total Commander application or its free version of Free Commander. It is necessary to recover files from a flash drive if there is no information among the hidden information. Most importantly, do not write anything to the affected drive. The new file will probably be written to the place of the old one, and then it will not be possible to restore the lost information .
Files on the drive may not be available for several reasons. Firstly, the flash drive itself may not open. The system either does not "see" USB at all, or cannot access it. This is accompanied by system error messages and a suggestion to automatically format the flash drive. Do not immediately agree to formatting. To restore files from a USB flash drive, you must first restart your computer, then remove and load the drive again, and only after doing all this, start formatting.
After formatting the flash drive in fast mode, we proceed to data recovery. To do this, you need a special program, for example, EasyRecovery Professional. The downloaded and installed utility will scan the system and find files that can be restored. You just have to select the necessary data and the folder into which the program will copy them.
You can recover a deleted file not only with the help of formatting. RawRecovery utility will help to avoid this rather long process. The program will find the affected data without resorting to formatting the drive, and save it on the hard drive or other drive. In addition to the above utility, it may
help and R-Stadio program. The principle of operation of this application is approximately the same. It can recover files from a USB flash drive by scanning the system and saving the necessary data.
Programs and utilities created for data recovery, of course, greatly simplify life. However, it is worth taking measures not to fall into such an unpleasant situation at all. First of all, you should remove the USB drive correctly using the special tray icon. If the flash drive cannot be removed in this way, turn off the computer and remove it from the connector. Do not keep important data in a single option. Before writing to the drive, be sure to make a copy of the document and save it on a cloud server. By the way, such cloud storage can serve as an ideal replacement for USB drives.
In conclusion, it is worth adding that the restoration of Transcend is no different from the "repair" of a flash drive of any other brand.