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Restoring data from flash drives

Saving the lost information.

Gone was terrible happened ... all the important information from your flash drive or memory card!

What could be worse than the loss of information for those who are constantly working with it?

Accidentally formatted a memory card in the camera with interesting images that do on vacation?

Formatted USB-stick with a very relevant file and backup left? All is not lost! Lost information can try

to recover.

The vast majority of information related to the disappearance of damage to the logical data

structure. When formatting or file system fails to flash, broken only table with the file location and

the file is, in most cases, are not damaged (of course if it was not made intentionally mashing

information programs and Schroeder). By this, you can still self-rescue information without going to

the organization of specialized information on restoring Flash drives and save a little on this currency.

So, try to recover the information. We conclude that the media are physically working, and when

referring to the removable disk does not appear a window with the message "insert disk" and the

flash will not record, any information on top of the one that was removed.

To recover lost files, use a little free program PhotoRec 6.10 is included with testdisk-6.10

Download and unpack the archive with the program, such as C: \ Temp \

Connect the removable media to your computer and run the program photorec_win.exe

1. In the list of drives, select your removable media.

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2. Then select the type of file system on the media, in this case, [Intel].

3. In the next window, select the sections to find deleted files, select the first in the list section (Whole disk - search all partitions).

4. Next, specify the type of file system on the disk, as We choose the FAT file system [Other]

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5. Here you need to select a directory to store the files found. By default, the directory with the program photorec_win.exe, click «Y».

6. Begin the process of finding deleted files.

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7. As a result, the program will report the number of found files and save them in a directory recup_dir

That's all, a little luck and your lost files recovered!

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