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A USB flash drive with data appears to be corrupted. How to recover the data?

April 26, 2017appears corrupted Data flash drive recover USB

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A USB flash drive with data appears to be corrupted. How to recover the data?

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• Whenever you experience data loss due to accidental erase or corruption immediately STOP using the USB flash drive. Try to retrieve the data via 3rd party data recovery software that are widely available for free trial in the Internet. Flash is very sensitive to power surge. A power loss or surge while the drive is being accessed can corrupt its content. While USB connector is a convenience mean to connect and disconnect a device, it does pose a looseness issue when it wears out. This looseness will result in sudden lost of power or power surge due to intermittent connection. Formatting of the drive using manufacturer supplied Formatting Tools will usually correct this type of corruption. After this correction, please remember to follow usual “Safely Remove Hardware” feature to stop the Flash drive. If this corruption persist even after formatting, please change to another USB port.