Lil67 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Hi I have downloaded Recuva and ran the software hoping to recover lost files on my USB Flash Drive. I was previously getting a message telling me the drive hadnt been formatted but I think it may have been failing as its got all my photos on and has been in regular use. I have tried the check disk command but it tells me the drive is RAW(?) which appears to be a problem. I have downloaded EaseUS and that software can access the files on the USB so I know they are still there but to actually restore them there is a HUGE cost - typical! Have now tried Recuva but when I specify the E: drivefor file recovery (where my USB stick is!) it says"Unable to determine file system type". Any ideas what to do next please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted January 6, 2014 Moderators Share Posted January 6, 2014 Hi Lil, and welcome to Piriform. Yes, you have a faulty drive and although now recognized by Windows as RAW, your files will be there. How big is the drive by the way and what total size of files are you looking to recover, because "EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free" allows you to recover 2GB of data for free? Have you been using a different version? http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm If you have more data than that to recover, we'll look at something else, but if you can get the 2GB, go for it as that's better than nothing at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krit86lr Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 That's the perfected suggestion Dennis, I used it to recover raw files off of 3 hard drives over the last 6 smonths. I did purchases it at 1/2 off but it was definitely worth the $40. I tested tons of freeware but the freeware couldn't recover the raw data unfortunately. Windows Pro Media 8.1 x64 | 8GB Ram | 500G HDD 7200 RPM | All that I know about my graphics is that it's Intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Lazesoft Recovery is freeware which recovered from a 600 GB HDD all the :- RAW data on the first two partitions, and all the data in the next half dozen partitions which Windows said was now Unallocated Space. It also works on Flash Drives http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Lazesoft-Recovery-Suite-Home.shtml NB There were many 6 GB Macrium Partition Backup files on that 600 GB HDD Lazesoft recovered them all and Macrium validated them all, based upon the internal hash checksums. Alternative Data Recovery costing $69 was able to recover the correct amount for each file, but they were rejected. Lazesoft correctly assembled the file fragments on that drive which I had never defragged. I am guessing that the alternative software costing $69 was able to detect the first sector of each file, and then simply read all the sectors in sequence and thus composed an output that consisted of fragments from many different files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted January 11, 2014 Moderators Share Posted January 11, 2014 If you have more data than that to recover, we'll look at something else Lazersoft was also my "something else" Alan, but I'm sure Lil will appreciate the heads-up and the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan009 Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Thank you for your useful post! It helped a lot! In fact, last weekend, I also formatted my USB flash drive and lost most of my school papers there. In order to rescue them, I searched and read a lot. Finally, I successfully restored my wanted files back by trying some data recovery tools, like Recuva, iCare Data Recovery Free, 4Card Recovery, EaseUS Data Recovery, etc. Thank you very much!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted April 24, 2014 Moderators Share Posted April 24, 2014 Pleased you got your stuff back Alan. Welcome to the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norbertino Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Hi people, seems I have a similar problem my 64GB USB stick ( almost half full with video and music) suddenly stopped showing any data. Windows says without interruption that I've to formate´drive E: first. So I've tried Recuva but it says only " invalid drive size"..... Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted March 30, 2016 Moderators Share Posted March 30, 2016 I've lost a few USB drives in my time, either through power surges via faulty ports, failed controller chips on the USB stick or just plain wear & tear. Sadly it sounds like yours too has 'just died'. If you can, try plugging it into a Linux PC. It's a long shot but I have had drives successfully read under Linux when Windows couldn't. You could also try a quick format of the drive. This would hopefully get the drive readable so Recuva can do its thing. It all depends on what's happened to the drive. If you have important data you simply must get back, a professional data recovery mob may be needed. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 13, 2016 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2016 After 2 years for the first post, and then 6 months for the last and now its resurrection... ...I'll close this topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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