USB Data Recovery

[dw1973]

One of my usb pen drives has managed to lose it's formatting meaning windows can't read the data and is suggesting I format it.

There's some files on there I'd rather not lose, but I can't find a freeware program to help me recover them.

One I've found seems to find them but wants $45 for doing it.

Does anyone know of a free/cheaper (and trojan-free) alternative?

Thanks in advance!

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

Never tried it but this one is free:

Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery - Home

and I would trust the coders since they wrote Crap Cleaner

 

[dw1973]

Thanks admin, but it can't recover data when a boot sector is corrupt

 

[aZooZaaZooZa is verified member.]

You might try the program fdisk.exe on the net or on one of your old Win CDs. Try:

fdisk /mbr

A data recovery utility might have trouble recovering anything that's not in a subdir; i.e. all the files that are in the root are probably lost forever

 

[doodlebug]

Search for a product called image recall that recovers lost data from memory sticks and usb pens etc. it's about £16 and comes on a disk so you can use it again and again.

Sorry but can't remember the name of that site that sells it, think my brain needs this product :lol:

 

[retired_member12]

One of my usb pen drives has managed to lose it's formatting meaning windows can't read the data and is suggesting I format it.

There's some files on there I'd rather not lose, but I can't find a freeware program to help me recover them.

One I've found seems to find them but wants $45 for doing it.

Does anyone know of a free/cheaper (and trojan-free) alternative?

Thanks in advance!

Leave it on a train!