Formatted a USB Drive can I Recover My Files

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Recover digital files from formatted USB drive

QUESTION: How do I recover files on a pre-formatted USB Flash Drive?
"I have a flash drive that has all my photos and songs on it. It worked just fine and the next minute Mac prompts me to format the drive but I know if I format it, it will delete my files, how to recover the files off USB drive to computer? Can I recover if i format it?"

BEST ANSWER: Your drive might be dead or become corrupted, first you need to stop getting any new files into this USB drive, then turn to a removable media data recovery program, it can help you recover digital data from portable storage devices, due to deletion, formatting, or corruption.
Recovering files from formatted USB drive
Download DEMO version of Disk Doctors Photo Recovery (Mac) software and install to your Mac, it could scan and allow you to see if your music files are still on your iPod. Or click the buy button to purchase its full vesion to backup the recovered data on Mac, through the online purchasing system and guarante safety of your payment information.

Product: Disk Doctor Photo Recovery for Mac
Price: $69.00
Delivery: Download link, License key
OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above, including Leopard

Disk Doctors's Photo Recovery for Mac software save your lost digital media file when
  1. Formatted or reformatted memory cards, removable media;
  2. Any type of file system corruption in digital camera storage device, hard drive and USB flash drives;
  3. Camera turned off un-intentionally;
  4. Storage media being pulled out from camera during write process;
  5. Any type of logical memory card corruption which does not allow you to access photo.

Guides: How to recover digital files from formatted USB drive.

Disk Doctors Photo Recovery Software provides easy to use interface that helps you to recover files in simple steps. Please follow the steps below to recover lost photo, audio and video files from formatted USB drive on Mac. DOWNLOAD DEMO

Step 1. Run Photo Recovery software.
Run Disk Doctors Photo Recovery for Mac software on your Mac, by double clicking on application icon from the 'Applications' folder or the location where the software has been installed. Program main Window will be displayed as shown in the Figure (a).

Run software to recover files from formatted USB
Figure (a). Program main Window

Step 2. Choose digital file types.
Select the USB hard drive from the drive(s) list, and click on "Next" button Or double click on the drive to proceed. As you click "Next" button, the program displays a window to select file types that you wish to recover. Shown in "Figure (b)".

Select file tpyes on USB drive
Figure (b). Select required file formats

Step 3. Save recovered USB files.
As soon as the application completes the deleted file scanning process, all the files deleted from USB hard disk will be analysed and displayed in a well organized data tree. Show in Figure (c).
Click on "Save" button and specify a safe location to save those recovered files in your local folder. Show in Figure (d).

Scan digital files on formatted USB drive
Figure (c). Recovered data tree

Save files recovered from formatted USB drive to Mac
Figure (d). Specify safe destination location for saving

Please Note: In order to save your recovered data, you need to purchase and activate the full version. Saving option will not work in demo version.

Product: Disk Doctor Photo Recovery for Mac
Price: $69.00
Delivery: Download link, License key
OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above, including Leopard
Trial: Download Evaluation Version

AWARDS
Photo Recovery for Mac - Downloadatoz award
Photo Recovery for Mac award by PC ADVISOR
CNET Award for Photo Recovery for Mac
Photo Recovery for Mac - Excellent award

REVIEWS
  • by George M. Bigham Thomson
    Thank you! It is nice to deal with professionals! In spite of my PC being re-imaged, having several applications installed and being used daily for about a week, your product was able to recover most of my lost files!"

  • by CNET Editor Review
    We found that the program discovered the folder and file structure faster than many similar programs"

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