How to Recover Deleted Files from USB Flash Drive

Summary :

This article is about how to recover deleted files from USB pen drive, I will introduce all the solutions to recover deleted files including CMD command prompt, data recovery tool.

Is It Possible to Recover Deleted Files from USB Pen Drive?
How to Recover Deleted Files from USB Pen Drive with CMD Command Prompt
Quick Solution to Restore Deleted Files from USB Pen Drive

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Is It Possible to Recover Deleted Files from USB Pen Drive?

What makes it difficult to recover deleted data from USB flash drive is that the files won’t be found at recycle bin after you mistakenly deleted some files. So you cannot recover data from recycle bin. But you still have solutions to make it.

Before that, there are something important you need to know:

Do not use your USB pen drive after you deleted the files on the drive, never put any other data on it. Rewriting the device will make it impossible to recover the data.

How to Recover Deleted Files from USB Pen Drive with CMD Command Prompt

First, you can try command prompt to recover the USB flash drive, but you need to be careful when you use CMD command prompt, if you make mistakes when you type characters on the command window, it may cause some irretrievable mistake to your pen drive or other disk drive.

Step1: Run CMD command prompt.

Step2: Type "chkdsk X: /f and hit Enter. (X is the drive letter of the device where used to save your deleted files.)

Step3: Type "Y" and Enter.

Step4: Type "X:" and Enter. (X is the drive letter of the device where used to save your deleted files)

Step5: Type "X:\>attrib -h -r -s /s /d *.*" and hit Enter. (X is the drive letter of the device where used to save your deleted files.)

After these five steps, you can check if it works. If it does not work, you can try another one.

Quick Solution to Restore Deleted Files from USB Pen Drive

If you have a data recover tool, things will be much easier. Data recovery tool can save you a lot of time and prevent some risk, professional data recovery tools can solve a lot data loss problems like deletion, formatting, corrupted, virus infection, etc.

The only thing you need to be careful is to choose a reliable program, you can try iCare Data Recovery pro , which is a 100% safe data recovery tool, it is read-only and will not do any harm to your device. And it can solve many kinds of data recovery problems, it is proved to have more effective recovery ability than most similar programs. You can try it.

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Recover Deleted Files from USB Pen Drive with Data Recovery Tool

Step1: Run iCare Data Recovery pro on your computer, try "Deleted Files Recovery" function first, if it does not work, you can choose "Deep Scan Recovery".

Recover deleted files from USB pen drive.