| Pen drive brings us unpredictable risk as well as great | | | | odd and I felt so frustrated. I guess probably my pen |
| convenience. We are always accustomed to save our | | | | drive got virus or Trojan attacked in the café bar |
| handy files in pen drive instead of in a computer. | | | | computer. How should I do if I want to retrieve my lost |
| Particularly for businessmen who travel a lot and have | | | | files? |
| tremendous meetings, pen drive becomes your best | | | | If you have lost files from your pen drive due to any of |
| friend as this tiny piece of thing carries your important | | | | the above situations, don't panic! It's easy to retrieve |
| files for any formal or informal occasions demand. But | | | | your lost pen drive files as long as you act as soon as |
| have you ever suffered the following situations and | | | | possible. However before they are retrieved one thing |
| need to retrieve lost files from your pen drive? | | | | you should keep in mind: don't save any new files to |
| Situation 1: accidently deleted files in my pen drive, they | | | | the pen drive! Here is the explicit solution to retrieve |
| are lost forever | | | | lost files for each situation. |
| I thought some of files in the pen drive will be in no use | | | | Solution for situation 1: deleted files in pen drive won't |
| and decide to delete them. So I just selected some | | | | be found in the Recycle Bin because the file data was |
| and executed delete command. Never noticed that | | | | stored in the disk of your pen drive other than in the |
| until one day I realized I have deleted a few of my | | | | computer. But they are not really deleted. They are |
| really important files which were not intended to be | | | | simply removed from the directory and you can no |
| done. I checked the recycle bin with nothing found. | | | | longer see them. But the files content still exist intact. |
| They are lost forever. Is there any way to retrieve my | | | | So at this point your lost files deleted can be retrieved |
| deleted files? | | | | by a data recovery tool. |
| Situation 2: pen drive shows the disk in the drive is not | | | | Solution for situation 2: in this case you can insert your |
| formatted | | | | pen drive to another computer to see if it'll still work |
| When I inserted my pen drive to my computer, it's | | | | normally, without luck? Then it seems that your pen |
| detected but showing the disk in the drive is not | | | | drive corrupted or crashed. You'd better follow the |
| formatted with a message pop out like "pen drive is | | | | message and format your pen drive. But it doesn't |
| not formatted, do you want to format it now?" I don't | | | | necessarily mean you'll lose all your files inside as |
| want to do it as I have got so many files in it. But I | | | | formatting also won't make file data lost permanently. |
| know if I don't format it my pen drive will be no useful | | | | You can often rely on a data recovery program to |
| any more. So I formatted it according to the indication. | | | | retrieve formatted files. |
| Thus all my files are lost. Is it possible to retrieve | | | | Solution for situation 3: your lost files are probably |
| formatted files? | | | | hidden or deleted by virus or Trojan. They become |
| Situation 3: pen drive got virus attack and all the files | | | | invisible. If they are hidden, you may use anti-virus |
| lost | | | | programs to remove the virus or Trojan and your lost |
| I was doing a paper in a net café bar using a public | | | | files will be visible. If they are deleted, you may try a |
| computer. I knew exactly I have saved the documents | | | | data recovery tool to retrieve lost files easily. |
| to my pen drive. But when I came back home and | | | | However, the most effective precaution for such virus |
| opened it to my laptop. Nothing is in it and all my paper | | | | attack is taking USB Drive Encryption which will secure |
| files are gone! Almost the same time my laptop hinted | | | | all your pen drive files permanently. |
| me there were a few vulnerabilities. That's extremely | | | | |