A usb drive is a data storage device that includes flash memory, usually, usb drives are connected with Universal Serial Bus interface of computer. Usb drives are often used for the same purposes for which floppy disks or CD-ROMs were used, such as for storage, back-up and transfer of computer files. Usb drives are smaller, faster and are reliable and durable because they have no machine parts and no moving parts. Nowadays, usb drives have become the most important mobile storage device, we use it to save some important file datas, photo pictures, and so on.
Usually, usb drives are safe. However, when we delete some files from a usb drive, these deleted files will not exist in the Recycle Bin. As you know, when you delete some files in the Windows operating system, these deleted files will be thrown into the Recycle Bin of Windows operating system. So, if you deleted some important files mistakenly, and then you want to get these deleted file back, you can restore them by opening the Recycle Bin to restore these deleted files, but, how to recover deleted files from usb drive? Those deleted files are not existed in the Recycle Bin! Can we recover deleted files from usb drive?
In fact, when you delete some files from a usb drive, contents of these files will not be immediately destroyed. The operation system just simply marks the usb drive space as being available for use by changing one character in the file table so that the file entry won't be displayed in My Computer. Theoretically, until the area is overwritten, these deleted files can be recovered
intact. So, once you have deleted some important files from a usb drive and then you want to recover these deleted files, you should stop writing any data to the usb drive until your deleted files are successfully recovered.
Now, we know it is possible to recover deleted files from usb drive, but, Microsoft Windows family operating system doesn't offer the ability to recover deleted files from a usb drive natively, so, if you have deleted some important files from your usb drive, and then you want to recover these deleted files, it is necessary to install a profession file recovery software.
Below, there is a step by step guide about how to recover deleted files from usb drive, let us learn it together:
2. Install it into your computer, please keep in mind: don't install the software into the usb drive.
3. Run the
file recovery software, and select a disk partition(the usb drive disk), then click the 'Next' button to start to scan deleted files in the usb drive.
4. After the software completed the scanning process, it will list all deleted files in a file list, and then you can select some files which you want to recover to recover.
