Recover Data from Broken USB Drive

[Solved] How to Recover Data from Broken USB Drive

Oct. 17, 2017 10:24 am / Posted by Bobby Hills to Card Tips
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When your USB drive get broken or corrupted, what will you do? For most of the users, they may choose to give up the broken USB and get a new one. However, if you have stored important files in the USB, do you know how to save your USB stick? In the following content, we will introduce you the most effective method to help you retrieve data from corrupted USB/broken USB, just follow us.

How to Fix a Broken USB Drive with Software

Using a recovery software can be the most directly way to recover data from your broken USB drive and this method can save you a lot time. And here we recommend you to have a try by using Card Data Recovery, this software provides an easy and quick data recovery from various memory cards including a broken USB drive.

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• After download and install this software to your PC/Mac, run the program and you will see the interface below.

• Then you are required to connect your broken/corrupted USB with your computer and choose "Step 1", you can also click "Start" to get the recovery process begin.
• When it comes to the step 1 interface, you need to select the device from the recover list. After that, choose a recovery mode you need:
  Standard Mode: You can optionally select your wanted file types according to your need.
  Advanced Mode: Just recover files of the file formats you choose.
  Here we take Standard Mode as example, and this mode is also set as default, click "Scan" and go on the following steps.

• During the scanning, users can choose to preview the needed files by clicking "Pause/Stop" and you can recover your lost files.



Note: You can also choose to preview after scanning.
• Check your needed files and click "Recover". You then can choose a path to save the files. And you are not recommend to save them in the path where it get lost.

After you read this article, you then may know how to get files from damaged USB stick. But for a part of users who find their USB cannot be read by computer, most of the software cannot help to fix, users can get help from professional situation.

Hope all of you can successfully repair broken USB drive after read this article, and we suggest you regularly transfer important files to other place like Cloud to keep data safe.

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