Data recovery flash drive

[ricki]

Hi

I have just had two staff come in today with broken usb drives. Does anyone know any free software that can recover the data. I have tried the freeware versions of the commercial stuf but it will only stop the files and will not recover anything.

Thanks for all your help.

Richard

[flashsnaps]

I've used Photorec before - thats pritty good at recovering stuff.

PhotoRec - CGSecurity

[antoeknee]

The free stuff from PC Inspector works well too

[bloxy]

Try Recuva
Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery - Home
it's free and did the job for us the other week

[SYSMAN_MK]

You could try Undelete +

[Hedghog]

Hi,

I have just used a freeware program called "EASEUS" I found whilst looking for such things. D**ned if I can find out where it came from now but I guess if you google it you will find it. It even showed the deleted copies from each iteration when editing a word document.
The teacher concerned was most pleased

[OverWorked]

I know this doesn't answer your request for free software, but I can recommend Data Doctor Recovery - Pen Drive. I had to use it recently.

[bossman]

EasyRecovery Professional very very good for the cost.

[OverWorked]

I've had staff bring several faulty pendrives this year - all of them pretty new. Is it a decline in quality, as my old 64Mb one is still working perfectly, or just rough handling?

It could be - the same thing happened to floppy disks. I've had floppies from the 1980's with my old degree projects on, still readable. Floppies bought in recent years (though it's been a while since I've had to use one) have been terrible. Write once, read once, and that's it.

The drive for low price sacrifices reliability.

[ricki]

I've used Photorec before - thats pritty good at recovering stuff.

PhotoRec - CGSecurity

HI

Thanks this worked a treat it took about 3 hours to run.

Thanks

Richard

[carnforthhigh]

We have used a nice little program called ADRC Data Recovery Tools. It has a few little handy features available.