By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
"My SanDisk USB flash drive was formatted by me just now. But many important data, including files, Photos, audios, and videos are deleted. So regretful I am now. Therefore, I have to protect the formatted USB flash drive, and find effective way or tool for USB flash drive data recovery as soon as possible." The following article is based on the user's experience about using data recovery tools.
Three free and available data recovery tool: BitGenius, Card Data Genius, Photo Data Genius.
If you don't care about data recovery type or storage device, Data Genius can be an effective and common choice all the time. In a word, choose different tool according to deleted data type and data storage device.
In order to make USB drive deleted data recovery easy to be understood, common steps will be introduced below with Card Data Genius, also available to Photo Data Genius, BitGenius.
Step 1: Take formatted Sandisk USB drive and connect it to computer.
Step 2: Run Card Data Genius on computer and choose data recovery option.
If you have not downloaded and installed it on your computer, download Card Data Genius first. Choose which option depends on what you want to recover. Now choose "All File Types". Click Next button.
Step 3: Select USB flash external driver in Drivers/Partitions list. Click Scan button.
Step 4: Scan USB flash driver files. This step will take few minutes.
Step 5: Preview data in the right pane of Card Data Genius, check them and click "Recover" button. Remember to choose another drive to save them in a folder.
Step 6: "Recovery is finished" message prompts that USB drive data recovery is successful.
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