| Using pen drives these days are pretty common, | | | | years of life, and while they are more or less |
| especially since these portable and handy storage | | | | affordable to most people, it is the data stored inside |
| devices can store anything from documents to | | | | them that makes them valuable. Sometimes data also |
| pictures to music and audio to even movies and | | | | gets lost because people simply delete them by |
| programs and applications. It's very convenient and | | | | accident, like when they mistakenly format the drive. |
| efficient to use, and is almost a must-have for both | | | | Preserving and Retrieving Your Data |
| personal and business use. | | | | It is important of course, to take steps first to avoid |
| The whole platform has really gone a long way from | | | | losing data. It is much easier to take preventive |
| the floppy drives of yesteryear that could only house | | | | measures rather than face the hassle and stress of |
| a teeny 1.44mb of data, so small drives being able to | | | | trying to retrieve your data later. |
| store up to more than 64gb of data. But like any drive, | | | | - One tip you should remember when dealing with pen |
| thumb drives are not immune to accidents, and it is not | | | | drives is to always unplug them properly from the |
| unknown for people to suffer from data loss. | | | | computer or laptop they are attached to. To do this, |
| What's a Thumb Drive / Pen Drive? | | | | you simply look for a small green and grey icon on the |
| Of course, we begin with the basics first. The thumb | | | | bottom right of your screen that says 'Safely remove |
| drive is a small storage device that operates much like | | | | hardware'. Click on it and select the drive and eject it. |
| a regular hard disk, but is housed in a much smaller | | | | You can also go to my computer, look for the thumb |
| form. It is also called a flash drive or a USB drive or | | | | drive in question, and then right click on it, and then |
| Pen Drive. And unlike the old portable storage options, | | | | select 'Eject'. Ejecting you thumb drive properly |
| there is no need for a dedicated drive port - floppy | | | | prevents data from being corrupted and helps |
| disks had special drives just for them. Thumb drives | | | | preserve the life of you drive. |
| simply connect to a computer or laptop's USB | | | | - If in case you do lose your files, working with data |
| (Universal Serial Bus) port, which almost all - if not all - | | | | recovery is much more recommended as they do the |
| computers today have, making the whole technology | | | | job better - and are much cheaper to boot - than data |
| fast and efficient to use, and maximizing its | | | | recovery firms that cost an arm and a leg. |
| compatibility - thumb drives work on both Macs and | | | | How to Recover Deleted Files From Thumb Drive - |
| PCs. | | | | Step By Step |
| Losing Your Files | | | | 1. First of all, search for a data recovery software, |
| It is an unavoidable circumstance for many computer | | | | download it and install it in your system. |
| users to experience data loss at one time or another, | | | | 2. Plug the thumb drive in your computer and scan it |
| either by carelessness or by accident. This applies to | | | | with the data recovery software. |
| the bigger brothers of the thumb drive, the portable | | | | 3. The data recovery software will find the files you've |
| hard disks as well as internal ones, and of course to | | | | deleted before and show you a list. |
| the pen drives themselves. One reason data loss | | | | 4. Now you need to select the files you want to |
| happens is because of the lifespan of these drives - | | | | recover and start the recovery process. |
| the typical pen drive is said to have an average of 10 | | | | |