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External USB Drive File Recovery
Pen drives, Flash memory cards, FireWire drives, External hard drives are different types of external USB drives, which are used to store large number of files like audio files, video files, image files and all other types of files. External USB drives vary in their maximum storage capacities. Pen drives store up to 256GB of data, flash memory cards like SD and CF cards can store around 128GB of data whereas external hard drives can store up to 2TB of data. In coming years, storage capacities of these external USB drives may increase depending upon its use. SanDisk, Transcend, Kingston are well known brands of both memory cards and pen drives whereas Seagate, Hitachi and Western Digital are most popular brands of external hard drives. Generally, external USB drives like external hard drives are more preferred to store essential files, because they are portable, provide greater flexibility and you can keep backup of essential files. External hard drives works similar to internal hard drive but the difference is external hard drives are connected to computer via plug-in cables. Pen drives and memory cards use flash memory to store essential data and they are less prone to mechanical failures because they are not having any moving parts like hard drives. However, there are some chances where these external USB drives like memory cards and pen drives may encounter logical failure problems.
You may accidentally delete a file from external USB drive, which may results in loss of files. Generally, a file, which is deleted from external USB drive, will not go to Recycle Bin instead it bypasses the Recycle Bin. If you later want to restore deleted files back, then you cannot restore it back from Recycle Bin. Accidentally removing external USB drive may corrupt the file system, which may also result in loss of files. File system organizes and manages the files, which stores allocation information of stored files and information regarding available free space to store new files. Generally, when you connect an external USB drive to computer, Operating system of your computer accesses the files using the file system of your external USB drive. When you abruptly remove the external USB drive, the file system, which is being accessed by your computer, may get corrupt resulting in inaccessibility of files.
Along with the above-mentioned problems, files may also get deleted or lost due to malware, spyware or virus attack. Sometimes, accidentally formatting external USB drive may also result in loss of files. Because, formatting will delete all files. In few cases, antivirus programs or power surge problems during transferring files from external USB drive to computer may also lead to loss of files.
Loss of files can be avoided in various ways. Do not remove external USB drive abruptly, use "Safely remove hardware" option to eject the external USB drive properly. The instant you find that your files have been deleted, do not save or copy new files onto the affected external USB drives. This is because saving or copying new files may overwrite existing files resulting in permanent loss of files. If you have backup file then you can easily restore deleted files from backup copy, therefore try to keep backup of essential files. If you don’t have a backup file then no need to worry, because you can use a powerful file recovery software for Mac or Windows, depending on the operating system which you are using, to recover the lost files. File Recovery Software is an efficient file recovery software for Windows, which can recover deleted or lost files from all types of external USB drives like Pen drives, Memory cards, External hard drives, FireWire drives etc. This software supports file recovery from SD memory card, XD cards, MMC, CF cards, memory sticks, etc. This software is also capable of performing file recovery after format of external USB drives. The software supports recovery of all popular file formats based on their unique signature.
