How to recover deleted files from USB drive?

USB drives are storage devices, which can be connected to computer using USB port. In USB drive, different types of files can be stored like image files, audio files, video files, doc files, etc. Files stored on USB drive can be transferred to the computer. While file transfer process, if you turn off the system then there may be chances of losing the files. Sometimes you may accidentally delete files from USB drive while deleting unwanted files. If you delete any files from your USB drive, when USB drive is connected to the computer then those deleted files will not move to Recycle Bin. You cannot restore those files from Recycle Bin. Hence, while deleting unwanted files from USB drive you should be careful. However, you can recover deleted files from USB drive using good file recovery software.

When files are deleted from USB drive, they will not get deleted permanently from USB drive. The content of the deleted file will remain in the same location but the pointer, which was pointing to files and file index will get deleted from USB drive. If you write any other content on USB drive after deletion of any file then, deleted content will get overwritten by new content. Once you overwrite any other content then it is not possible to recover deleted data using any file recovery software. Before you overwrite any content on USB drive you can restore accidentally deleted files using good file recovery tool.

You may lose files from USB drive due to several different instances. Different instances, which lead to file loss are- accidental deletion of files from USB drive, pulling out USB drive abruptly, virus attack to the files that are present in the USB drive, USB drive’s file system corruption, etc. If you lost any file from your USB drive due to any of these scenarios then you can recover lost file from USB drive using Remo Recover (Windows) – Basic Edition software. You can download and install trial version of the Remo Recover tool to evaluate chances of recovery. If you are satisfied with the result obtained from demo version then you can purchase complete version of the Remo Recover tool.

If you take some precautions then you can avoid file loss instances from USB drive. Some precautions that you should take to avoid file loss instances are-

  1. Keep backup of all necessary information in storage devices like CD, DVD, external hard drive, etc.
  2. While transferring files from USB drive to system, do not turn off the system. If you turn off the system then some files may get deleted from USB drive.
  3. When USB drive is connected to the computer, do not pull it out abruptly. If you pull out the USB drive then there are chances of occurrences of file loss instances.
  4. Do not connect USB drive to virus infected computer because if you connect your system to virus infected system then files present in USB drive may get affected by viruses.