Pen Drive Data Recovery: How to Recover Files from a Pen Drive

Pen drives can introduce unexpected risk as well as bringing great convenience. Instead of storing our handy files on a computer, we always get used to storing them on a pen drive. Especially for travelling businessmen, it's a really safe and convenient way to transport data on the move. However, pen drives also produce data loss due to some unknown or known reasons.

• Reasons for pen drive data lost
• How to perform pen drive data recovery
• Only 3 steps to recover files from a pen drive
• Why is pen drive recovery possible?

1Reasons for pen drive data lost

1. Error: "The Drive F: has not been formatted, do you want to format it now?"
2. Formatting the drive or deleting folders and files by accident
3. Unpredictable power down when you plug in computer
4. Can't "Safely remove hardware" in Windows
5. Virus attack
6. Frequently used
7. More unknown reasons

2 How to perform pen drive data recovery

To get back your lost pen drive data, you need to use pen drive data recovery software. It's very important to choose a safe and effective pen drive recovery tool, because some low-level programs may hurt your lost data more. Here we humbly recommend Wondershare Data Recovery for Windows users, and Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac (available for Mavericks) to recover files from pen drive.

Both of them are easy-to-use and provide specific recovery modes to recover all deleted files, formatted or lost for other reasons separately like videos, photos, music, documents, emails, archive, etc. Besides pen drives with different brands, Wondershare Hard Drive Data Recovery (for Mac) supports data recovery from various media storage devices such as external hard drives, usb drivse, digital cameras, mobile phones, iPods, and more.

Now, let's download the pen drive data recovery software and perform the pen drive data recovery.

3Simple steps to recover files from a pen drive

Setp 1. Download and Launch hard drive data recovery on your computer. Make sure your pen drive connected to your computer.

Setp 2. Choose the file type that you want to recover from your pen drive.

Setp 3. Choose your pen drive to scan for lost data (External removable devices).

Setp 4. If you can't find your files after the quick scan, go to scan again with Deep Scan. It will take more time to search more files from pen drive.

Setp 5. Preview and check your desired files and click to recover.

When saving the recovered data, considering future safety, please choose another place or storage, such as a computer hard drive or other external devices, but not the pen drive where you are recovering files from now.

4 Why is pen drive recovery possible?

Yes! You can recover data from pen drive easily. As a matter of fact, lost files are still somewhere on your pen drive but inaccessible, no matter if you delete, format or have lost them due to other reasons. Marked as reusable, the space that is occupied by lost files tells the system that it can be made used to save new data. Therefore, if you haven't written new data to it, you are able to recover the lost files, because they would still be there.

Keep in mind: If you have lost vital files from your pen drive, do not save any more data to your pen drive to avoid the lost files being overwritten.