A USB flash drives stores all the data in its memory similar to a hard drive. The operating system can later on fetch this data when required to be accessed. There can be various issues that may turn your USB drive data inaccessible such as if the drive is unmounted improperly from the port then it can lead to data corruption. Another reason for the stored data corruption can be invalid data in the Master Boot Record (MBR) or Partition Boot Record (PBR) or directory structure on the USB drive.
There can be various other reasons also that may make your USB corrupt or unresponsive. This may happen either due to logical corruption or physical corruption. Some common physical corruption issues are broken stems and connectors, dead drives (no power supply), broken circuit or NAND gate, not recognised, RAW, need to format, not accessible, and Dead Drives, etc.
How to recover data from an inaccessible USB drive?
To recover data from an inaccessible USB or Flash drive, first, you must be able to identify the exact reason leading to the problem while reading the USB drive.
Reasons of USB corruption or inaccessibility can be because of:
Logical Issues
Physical Issues
1. Recovering files from Logical Issues.
If there are some logical/software errors with the USB drive, you can easily fix it. You need to repair the file structure so that the USB flash drive can be used again.
This is how you can scan for logical issues using Windows:
Insert the USB drive into the USB port of your system
Go to My Computer>Removable Disk icon.
Right click the Removable Disk Icon and open its Properties.
Click on the Tools tab.
Click Check Now button.
You will be given two check disk options “Automatically fix file system errors” and “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors”.
Check both checkboxes.
Click Start. This will initiate the scanning process.
Click Close after the scan process is completed.
If you are using Windows 10 or a lower version then carry out the following steps to repair the USB Flash Drive:
Insert the USB drive into the USB port of your system
Go to My Computer>Removable Disk icon.
Right click the Removable Disk Icon and open its Properties.
Click on the Tools tab.
Click “Rebuild” button
Let the scan process get completed. Close the scan window once it’s completed.
Right-click the icon of the USB flash drive and “Eject”. Then remove the drive from the USB port.
Hopefully, this would help you solve the problem else you can try recovering your USB Data using a Professional Data Recovery Tool.
Most USB data loss issues can be solved by using a professional USB data recovery software. You can free download such program and install it on your PC to begin scanning the device and recover data. Try Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Professional that supports scanning of large capacity USB drives and traces inaccessible or formatted files with their attributes and size intact.
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