Common Failures

●Prompt of formatting (computer pops up error prompt "formatting")

●Prompt of "cannot be formatted" (computer pops up error prompt "cannot be formatted")

●Unable to identify the device (no response at all when plugged into the computer)

●The flash drive is formatted accidentally (the button of formatting is pressed accidentally)

●A folder or file is deleted (the recycle bin has been cleaned, or the file is deleted by directly pressing Shift + Delete)

●The size of the file does not match the actual size (the size of the file does not match the actual size, and the USB flash drive size is obviously inconsistent)

●Components fall off (chips fall off the circuit board)

●USB flash drive is damaged by external force (visible deformation or crack)

●USB flash drive is full of garbled texts when opened (all data is missing, leaving only a pile of garbled files)

Processing Method

Among numerous failures, there is only one situation that we suggest you try to recover by yourself, and we suggest you leave the remaining situations to a company specifically engaged in data recovery for processing (we will, in the paragraphs below, explain the reason why you should leave the remaining situations to a data recovery company, rather than try to solve them by yourself). The only one situation is that the USB Flash Drive does not suffer hardware damage, such as careless deletion of data and no writing of any data, or careless formatting of the USB Flash Drive, and then you can try to recover data with data recovery software. The commonly used data recovery software includes EasyRecovery, WiseRecovery and Disk Drill, and it is necessary to pay attention to and identify their advantages and disadvantages in use. Of course, before trying it out on your own, there are certain steps you must pay attention to, otherwise, data may not be recovered and your USB Flash Drive may be further damaged. The first step is to make a complete copy of the USB Flash Drive according to the current state to another USB Flash Drive (not the copy and paste through Windows, but completely copy every byte of the USB Flash Drive through software, which can be done only when the USB Flash Drive does not suffer hardware damage). This step requires a writing protection device (Write Blocker), so as to prevent change of the data. Then you can use the data recovery software to recover the copied USB Flash Drive, but the recovered data must not be put back to the original USB Flash Drive. It is because, in this case, overwriting and recovering will occur simultaneously and the recovered data cannot be opened. So keep in mind the above steps. For anything you don’t understand, please feel free to contact us for details at any time, and we are willing to answer questions for each customer. But sometimes the data recovery software cannot solve all problems, and in most cases, you have to rely on data recovery engineers for analysis. For example, why the rescued data does not have directory or file name or not a byte of data can be rescued. At this point, you don't have to give up and you can contact us. We will try to rescue your important data.

If the USB Flash Drive suffers hardware damage, and because there is no professional technology or equipment, you might truly make the USB Flash Drive worse or the data lost forever through aimless attempts. For example, there is a bad sector on the USB Flash Drive, but you use the data recovery software to scan the USB Flash Drive, and then you will find the USB Flash Drive is getting slower and slower, even a crash. This is because scanning is to read the information of each sector of the USB Flash Drive. When it comes to the bad sector, it will get stuck and reading cannot continue. The magnetism of the USB Flash Drive will become increasingly weaker due to continuous forced reading, and the number of bad sectors will increase. At this moment, it is quite usual that a friend or someone knowing much about computer will tell you to recover the bad sectors with special software. The result, of course, will be in vain. This is because the software doesn't fix the bad sectors at all but marks areas with bad sectors as no longer in use, and by that time, things are worse than they originally were. If you take the USB Flash Drive to a professional data recovery company at this moment, the failure detected will be more serious than it initially was. Actually, if you want to recover the data from the USB Flash Drive with bad sector failure, the data can be smoothly recovered with corresponding equipment support, with relatively low price and high degree of data integrity. But if you make forced reading, scanning and bad sector recovery on your own, the USB Flash Drive will become more damaged, even the magnetic head used to read and write data might fail. Then the price will be high and data integrity will be reduced. In individual cases, the disk might be scratched, leading to serious data loss. In the past recovery cases, many users would constantly try to read the USB Flash Drive on their own, which would have a great impact on the subsequent data recovery. It is therefore suggested that non-professionals should minimize aimless operation. There is only one chance for data recovery. Please make backup and find a professional data recovery company to help rescue your valuable information.

Solutions

If the data in an USB Flash Drive needs to be rescued in case of failure, the first thing to do is to find out whether the USB Flash Drive failure is a logic failure or a hardware failure, which can be done through customer’s detailed description and detailed detection with professional devices. Commonly used professional devices include PC-3000 Flash, FlashExtractor, Spider Board Adapter, dust-free laboratory, microscope and oscilloscope. These professional devices and tools can help us accurately detect specific USB Flash Drive failures without damaging the USB Flash Drive. The Company uses corresponding technology to solve these failures, and will be able to normally extract the raw data from the USB Flash Drive and recover the data as required by customers through analysis and reorganization. As a result, aimless operation will cause unnecessary damage to the USB Flash Drive and affect USB Flash Drive data salvation.

Use professional equipment to retrieve USB flash drive data

At present, the mainstream USB flash drives usually use Flash chips as storage media. When it has a hardware failure, we can save the data by solving its wiring problem or directly accessing its storage chip. As long as the USB flash drive's storage chip is intact, there is a great chance to save the data inside. The storage chip of USB flash drive can be removed by using the soldering station, and the detailed information and original data of the chip can be extracted by connecting with professional equipment such as PC-3000 Flash adapters, and then the extracted original data can be recombined on the professional equipment by corresponding checksum algorithm, so as to read the data of USB flash drive.