Extracting data lost/deleted from USB drives due to various data loss reasons

Any detachable drive means storage media which can be connected or even taken out easily from the PC without switching it off. These devices are employed for various reasons for example it helps to store information, it is useful for keeping all your back-up data files, you can easily move records, and so on. One of the most widely used detachable drives are generally Optical disks like (DVD disks, Compact disks), floppy drives, magnetic tapes , Universal serial bus flash drives , External hard disk drives as well as memory cards like (Secure Digital , memory stick , XD card and so on ). Memory cards are widely-used as storage device in lightweight media gadgets like cell phones, iPods and so on.


There are possibilities that these detachable storage units experience physical or even logical failures. Your files may get damaged or lost forever due to its serious consequences. Some of the situations that are responsible for damaging your kept information are generally suddenly removing from your system/PC in between transferring process, electrical power failure, switching off the system incorrectly, unexpected electrical power surge, and many others. Apart from these, there are many aspects responsible for information lose situation for example by accident deleting the records, reformatting or even repartitioning your removable drives, virus, spyware or viruses attack.
In order to recover your lost information from your storage units, you should consider the assistance of Remo Recover (Windows) Pro model which is effective at recovering your entire missing/erased data from within a short duration of time. This software successfully does recovery from removable drive or even from internal hard disks.

The dominant options that come with this tool are generally - it recovers files from formatted or reformatted drives, from missing/inaccessible or lost partitions, from deleted partitions, data missing as a result of partition mistakes, it identifies and also retrieves different file types based on their own signature, it is possible to add/edit personal files type if it is not outlined, it supports recovery of information from SATA/ SCSI, IDE hard disks, SD, XD, MMC flash memory cards, USB devices, iPod device memory, FireWire Drives etc.

To recover data files in the detachable media it is important that you need to connect that device to the system containing Microsoft Windows operating system.

Restore windows is a means of restoring your personal machine to a previous point in time. This usually undo the system modifications like applications installed and also changes to program files without deleting personal files for example documents, e-mail, pictures and so on. So it is good idea to make a restore point prior to making just about any modifications to the system or even installing any software. System restore is not pertaining to backing up personal files, this doesn’t enable you to restore records that are removed or damaged, and therefore you should back-up your data files frequently using reliable backup software.

As a way to recover and restore files after restoring Windows you can Download and make use of Remo recover (Windows) Pro edition. This software gets back the data which are lost by accident in the course of restoring process and even when you re-installed your Windows OS.

 

How to recover data from memory card

Memory cards are the non-volatile removable flash drives used in portable digital media devices. Many popular memory card manufacturers developed different type of cards like SD card, xD card, memory stick and many others. Most of the cards use FAT file system for file manipulation. Flash drives are widely used in digital cameras, mobile phones, music players, camcorders because they are easy to use, compact in size and economical.

Losing files stored in memory card is a quite common which most of the users encounter. Since majority of the users use flash cards to store media files like photos, videos and songs, losing of which is really frustrating. Even though it is a known fact that lost media files are non-reproducible, it is quite impossible to completely prevent digital data loss from flash cards. From now onwards if you lose any of your favorite photo or video, no need to panic, because memory card recovery is no more complex as earlier.

With the help of some data recovery utilities, it is very simple to retrieve deleted or lost digital files from flash drives. Prior to discussing how recovery process works, it is good to know the reasons for data loss in memory cards. Few common flash card data loss scenarios are here.

  • Memory card corruption is one of the primary reasons for flash cards data loss. Sometimes memory cards become inaccessible due to improper plug and play procedure like removing card from media device when there is a read/write process is in progress, ejecting the card when media device is turned on, etc. In case if the corrupted card has some important files then the probability of losing such files are pretty more.
  • Accidental deletion or formatting is another common reason for SD card data loss. Since human beings are prone to errors, sometimes user might accidentally format his flash card without examining its contents. In case if the formatted card has some important files which are not backed up, then user will lose them.

No matter how you have lost the file from flash drives, as soon as you lost file without backup, stop using the drive and think of a recovery utility. Deleting a file will never erase the data completely from storage drive, only the index file which is responsible for file manipulation will be removed and storage space marked as free but the actual data still exist on the stored sector until it is overwritten with new data. Recovery utility easily recovers such data with the help of different file attributes.

Remo Recover (Windows) – Media Edition and Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition are the two popular memory card recovery utilities which are available for both Windows and Mac operating system. Using these tools it is very easy to restore media files from different type of memory cards. With an advanced scanning algorithm, these utilities perform sector by sector scanning of your flash cards to restore deleted or lost files. With the help of these tools you can get back your photos, videos and songs along with the file names within a few clicks. Free trial version facilitates you to download and evaluate the tool before use.

How to recover lost data from SD card?

SD cards are pluggable memory chips, which stores  data even when they lose power. SD cards are most commonly used by digital cameras, cell phones, laptops, PDA’s, mp3 players etc. Some SD cards have sliding tab i.e. manual write-protect switch, which is located on the side of the SD card. If this sliding tab is in the lock position, then it does not allow you to write any contents to SD card thereby provides protection. SD cards are available in 2 tiny forms i.e. Mini Secure Digital (miniSD) card and Micro Secure Digital (microSD) card. MiniSD cards and microSD cards does not have write protect switch but, you can insert those cards in SD card adapter which contains write-protect switch. In order to access data from SD card directly, you need a card reader. Sometimes, you may encounter some error messages while accessing data from SD card. These error messages may not allow you to access the data from SD card resulting in data loss. If you want to recover lost data from SD card then you need to use relevant SD card recovery tool.

You may encounter error messages like “Unrecognized file format”, “Card error”, “Card not initialized”, “Cannot read from the card. Do you want to format it now?” etc. The main reason for occurrence of these type of errors is file system corruption. Generally, SD cards support FAT32 file system that allows you to access data from SD card. It stores allocation information of each stored file in its file allocation table. File system may get corrupted due to various reasons like spyware, malware or virus attack, power failure, abruptly removing SD card etc. When this file system gets corrupted then it does not allow you to access data from SD card resulting in data loss. Sometimes, you may accidentally format the SD card resulting in data loss. When you format the SD card, the data stored in SD card gets deleted and new file system is created to store new data. You can transfer SD card data to your computer by using card reader. If you accidentally remove SD card from card reader when data is being transferred to computer may results in data loss.

Always eject SD card using “Safely Remove Hardware” icon to avoid data loss. Take backup of essential data. If you have accidentally formatted the SD card then don’t use that SD card to save or copy new data. Because, saving or copying new data may overwrite old data resulting in permanent data loss beyond the recovery.

Remo Recover (Windows) Media Edition is able to recover lost data from accidentally formatted SD cards. Along with SD cards, this software also supports different types of memory cards like CF cards, MMC, XD cards etc. This software can identify and recover different types of files based on their unique signature. This software has special in-built algorithms to restore lost data from SD cards. Download free demo version of this software to evaluate recovery results. Later, you can store recoverd data on any windows accessible drives.