How to Recover Files from Lexar Flash Drive?

Flash drive is a data storage device that uses flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. USB flash drives are easy-to-use because they are small enough to carry in pockets and can plug into any computer with USB drive. USB flash drives are also called as thumb drives, jump drives, pen drives, key drives or simply USB drives. Lexar is an American manufacture of media products and they offer a wide range of storage products like USB flash drives, SD cards, Memory Sticks, CompactFlash cards and card readers. Among the fastest USB flash drive available, Lexar JumpDrive P10 USB 3.0 flash drives provides fast file transfer with speed up to 265MB/s read and 245MB/s write.

The Lexar flash drive is ultra portable for everyday use and is available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB memory capacities. The Lexar flash drives are convenient for storing or transferring files between different computers and sharing information with colleagues, friends and family members. Lexar flash drive can store various types of data files like Documents, folders, media files that include photos, audios and videos, ZIP and RAR archives, text files, etc. These data can be lost from your Lexar flash drive under various situations. One of which can be illustrated here.

The most common reason flash drive gets corrupted is impatience. Lexar flash drives get corrupted when you don’t safely remove them because of something called “write cache”. Essentially, write cache is a feature that improves write speeds. Rather than writing each request as it is received and forcing you to wait, your OS will cache this request and store it in write cache. When you tell your computer to safely remove or unmount the flash drive, then OS will write the entire requests into disk and tells all other background programs to stop accessing it. If you don’t safely remove flash drive then your files will get corrupted.

The files from Lexar hard drive can be lost in many unknown ways and some of the reasons are given below:

  • Accidental Data Deletion: You may accidentally delete some of important files while processing on the computer. The files that are deleted from Lexar flash drive will not be stored in Recycle Bin, thus it leads to data loss
  • Power Surge: While transferring files from the system to Lexar flash drive or vice versa suddenly if there is a power surge and system goes down, then data stored in flash drive may get corrupted or it can be lost
  • File System Corruption: While using cut-paste options for transferring files from Lexar flash drive to any other drive it should not be interrupted, if its interrupted then you may lose files from flash drive
  • Formatting the Flash Drive: Formatting is the process of erasing all your contents from the flash drive. Thus before formatting your Lexar flash drive have a proper backup of required files, else they will be lost
  • Virus Attack: There may be a chance of losing your files and other important folders from your flash drive when is connected with virus infected system

If you are using flash drive, then don’t be afraid when encounter data loss due to any of the above similar situations. You can recover all your lost files and folders by using any of the USB file recovery software. But most of the users prefer Yodot File Recovery to recover all their lost or deleted files.

Lexar flash drive recovery utility:

Yodot File Recoveryis one of the outstanding file restoration software which will recover all your files and folders that are deleted, lost or corrupted from Lexar flash drive. This tool will not only recover from your Lexar flash drive but it also recovers data from internal memory of the computer, laptops, notebooks and other storage devices.Yodot File Recovery will retrieve files from various flash drives brands like Lexar, HP, SanDisk, Transcend, Kingston, iBall, etc. This software uses advanced built in algorithm to identify and rescue your files that are lost or erased form Lexar flash drive.

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    Procedure for recovering files from Lexar flash drive:

    • Connect the Lexar flash drive to your computer
    • Download and install Yodot File Recovery software to the flash drive connected computer
    • Run the software to begin the recovery process and follow the instruction of it
    • The software displays two options in the main screen.i.e.,”Delete File Recovery” and “Lost File Recovery”
    • Select the appropriate option depending on the data loss scenario
    • It will scan the computer and shows all the physical and logical drives present in the system including your Lexar flash drive
    • Select the lexar flash drive from which your files is to be recovered and press “ Next” option
    • The software will scan the selected flash drive and displays all the recovered files and folders in Data View and File Type View
    • Data View provides the hierarchical view of files and folders similar to windows explorer
    • File Type View helps to view recovered files on the basis of file extension
    • At last save the retrieved files to your desired location on your PC

    Useful Tip:

    • Have a proper backup of your important files
    • Cross check you file before you format your flash drive
    • Don’t save your recovered files again to the same flash drive

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