How to do USB drive format recovery?

Need to recover files from formatted USB drive

What will you do to perform format recovery for USB drive if you imprudently formatted a USB drive such as USB pen drive or USB flash drive? This annoyance always happens, say, you may format the USB drive wrongly, and all the files on the USB drive are lost, such as precious photos with your family, important business files, etc. Things to be worse, you have no backup for the formatted USB drive. Therefore, you have to perform format recovery for USB drive, which is the best solution to recover files from formatted USB drive. To perform USB drive format recovery, you need reliable USB data recovery software: EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

How to recover files from formatted USB device with Data Recovery Wizard?

EaseUS is devoted to developing user-friendly software, so it's OK that you have no in-depth knowledge of USB drive format recovery, the only thing you need to do for USB drive format recovery is to choose the right module according to the reasons of data loss and the files you need to recover from the formatted USB drive.

There are three modules on Data Recovery Wizard as the picture below. "Deleted File Recovery" is for recovering deleted data; "Partition Recovery" for recovering lost partition and "Complete Recovery" for recovering files after format, system crash, etc. For USB drive format recovery, you need to choose the "Complete Recovery" module.

Before we go to the step-by-step instruction of USB drive format recovery, you will be more impressed if you download the demo version and follow me to do the USB drive format recovery.

The step-by-step instruction of USB drive format recovery

Step 1: launch the software, and click "Complete Recovery" module.

Step 2: Select the file types you want to recover. Tick 'Search all lost files automatically' to find all lost file types. Tick 'Ignore bad sectors' to skip bad sectors when scanning.

Step 3: Choose the USB device that was formatted and click "NEXT" to start searching this volume. The Intelligent Searching module will scan the selected volume, collect and analyze every byte on the volume, then show you a list of volumes which are possible on it.

Step 4: After this scanning is finished, Data Recovery Wizard will allow you choosing 4 volumes at best to recover the data. And then, press "NEXT" button. The Data Recovery Wizard will launch the "Building Directory" procedure to search the files. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

Step 5: Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

After the five steps above, you will be able to perform format recovery for USB drive to recover files from formatted USB drive. Please keep in mind that the quicker you perform format recovery, the more chance you can get to recover files from formatted USB drive. Once your USB drive is overwritten, you will lose the chance to recover files from formatted USB drive. So, stop using the formatted USB drive immediately and hurry up to try data recovery software to recover files from formatted USB drive.

 

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