Never trust a USB flash drive
Friday
Jan 13, 2006
Just lost all of my data on my USB drive (small capacity & doubles as an MP3 player). No worry. I didn’t lose much–just some podcasts and some documents I could find scattered elsewhere across my laptop and desktop’s hard discs anyway.
Wait, my entire Portable Sunbird calendar was in there! At least my life didn’t depend on my e-calendar, like with some people (I’d rather go for web-based calendars. Paper works, too.).
Lesson learned: don’t trust your teeny USB flash drives 100%. They can fail, you know. They’re designed to fail after a certain number of read/write cycles.
As for me, I was able to recover my drive using the manufacturer-supplied low-level reformatting tool.
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ma. olivia tuscano
April 14th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Hello!! I might have dropped my flash drive twice, then when i tried using it in my pc, it just wont read , but the led light is open. how can i recover my files and what is the reformatting tool? will it help me recover my files from my flash drive? and can I still have it repaired.
Thank you and hoping you could help me with my dilemma.
Olive
J. Angelo Racoma
April 16th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Hi Olive,
I use PC inspector for recovering lost files. You can download it here.