Scorpion Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Right i was round a clients house and i plugged my usb stick (16gb cruzer U3) in the laptop running Vista, when i went to the drive to see all the files vista froze on me and i had to end explorer.exe (as i know that it would restart explorer.exe) but in doing so it made my usb stick unformatted so at this moment in time the stick is currently unformatted and there is 14gb's of data that i would like so im asking is there some freeware/open source software that can recover or remake the usb format (FAT32) im running Win XP SP3 Home? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Right i was round a clients house and i plugged my usb stick (16gb cruzer U3) in the laptop running Vista, when i went to the drive to see all the files vista froze on me and i had to end explorer.exe (as i know that it would restart explorer.exe) but in doing so it made my usb stick unformatted so at this moment in time the stick is currently unformatted and there is 14gb's of data that i would like so im asking is there some freeware/open source software that can recover or remake the usb format (FAT32) im running Win XP SP3 Home? getdataback - http://www.runtime.org/ Recuva - http://www.piriform.com/recuva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noobsauce Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 You could try plugging it into a mac... I dont know why but that has worked for me a couple times. I dont have a good answer for why it works but It has saved my butt from losing school work. College papers that take 2 weeks to write... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charm_quark Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 are you sure that you lost all data, and its not just hidden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpion Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 are you sure that you lost all data, and its not just hidden? the pc's belive that the data stick is not formatted. (so i know its not hidden) I will try the Recuva software as i've used it before but i couldnt remember its name and the program was ON THE DATASTICK lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Give TestDisk a shot. It's said to be able to recover lost or damaged partitions. I tried it on a formatted flash drive, just hoping it might be able to recover a semi-formatted drive (Gonzor's U3 creator thing screwed it up) but ended up with nothing. It might be what you're looking for though, since yours wasn't really formatted. Even better would be to make a complete image of your drive and use TestDisk on the image first, instead of your actually drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I had the same problem with a USB HDD, until I discovered it worked fine in other computers, and it simply wasnt getting enough power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfg Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 GetDataBack http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm Try the Fat version. I have used it on my usb when I accidentally killed the partition. Pretty handy and it works like a charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredMet Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 You can try Easeus Deleted File Recovery (freebie), or better yet, Advanced File Recovery which is not free, but is much more effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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