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USB flash data recovery cases are very common in all data recovery labs but not many data recovery engineers can recover the lost data from these USB flash patient drives efficiently.

Data recovery engineers need to have good knowledge of USB flash drive failure types and how to recover lost data from different damaged flash drives.

USB flash drive failure types:

  • Frequent or wrong connection or disconnection of USB flash drives to computers to get the USB ports unstable or even sometimes physically damaged;
  • USB flash drives are physically damaged and users need to open the usb drives and do some wiring or chip soldering to recover the lost data;
  • USB storage medias are aging and the read and write are very slow with many bad sectors;
  • Data loss caused by accidental power loss/unstable power supply;
  • Data loss caused by accidental file deletion, format, virus attack or system corruption.

Tools suggested for USB flash drives data recovery

Once there’s data loss on the USB flash drives and users wish to recover the lost data, users cannot continue saving any files further or cannot connect or disconnect again and again to avoid permanent data loss.

Any question is welcome to sales[at]dolphindatalab.com.

“USB device not recognized!”
“The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. ”
‘The folders and files in the USB flash drive are not opening.”

This is one patient USB flash drive with above errors from one Dolphin user in China. It’s not possible to recover the lost data by data recovery software only because the patient drive is very unstable.

To recover the lost data from this patient USB drive of 32GB, the user used DFL-URE USB3.0 data recovery express.

The user connected the patient USB drive to the DFL-URE USB port, powered on the drive, set up one new disk image project, with the default settings, the user started the disk image, it took about 32 hours to complete the disk image, the patient drive kept generating errors during the whole imaging process, luckily all the sectors were imaged successfully and finally all the lost folders and files were opening normally from the target drive.

Users can watch above video case study here.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab