“For a few months I have been using a USB drive as a backup device on my Windows system. Today, while accessing my USB drive, I awkwardly formatted it using the 'Quick Format' option instead of performing some other operation. Now the device is empty without any file. Is it possible to recover files from a USB drive after a quick format? Someone suggest a useful solution to me please!!!”
Well, it is possible to retrieve files from a quick formatted USB drive if you have gone through the above situation. Usually Quick formatting is done to erase all data present on the USB drive. But some users perform it to change the type of file system in Windows hard drive to get better security of their files.
Keeping your data on a USB flash drive is a good idea. You might back it up to an external device, or you might have been given a USB stick or pen drive that contains important data. But then for some reason, that data isn't accessible. You plug a hard drive into your Windows PC and the operating system recognizes it, but the data is either not there or you can't retrieve it for work or personal reasons. If you need that data, you need to retrieve it.
Don’t panic. Basically, formatting does not cause permanent data deletion but makes it unreachable. So, it is possible to recover the data and important files from a formatted USB drive.
Note: Don’t use or add/copy new data in the drive after format when you need to format data back, as it can overwrite the lost data.
Before we look into the solutions, let us know about why formatting of USB drives happens.
In above mentioned circumstances, quick formatting of USB drive result in data loss. However, don't be annoyed about erased USB drive data, you can easily restore data from quick formatted USB drive using prominent data recovery tool.
Command Prompt, is an integral part of all Windows installations, and it supports all the commands you need to follow the instructions below to completion.
Provided the method was successful, you should see all deleted files on a newly created folder on your USB drive.
Present in all recent versions of the Windows operating system (including Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11), the Restore previous versions feature makes it possible to recover deleted files without any third-party tools, but it works only if you had enabled it before you deleted your files.
To recover deleted data from a USB flash drive:
If you see no previous versions, it means that you can’t use this method to recover deleted files from your flash drive. In that case, we recommend you move on to the third method, which is guaranteed to work no matter what.
Other than the above two methods, you can also restore information from your formatted USB drive using backup.
However, this data recovery method requires that you have backed up your USB before the incident occurred. Therefore, you can always use backup software, cloud or online storage solutions like Mega, Google Drive, One Drive, among others. As we have mentioned earlier, this method is only ideal if you had your data backed up previously.
Yodot Hard Drive Recovery is the most advanced utility to rescue quick formatted USB drive data on Windows operating systems. It has the latest built-in data recovery algorithm, which restores deleted and missing data from Windows hard drives and other storage drives. Along with the USB drive, it can recover data from Quick formatted NTFS drive, memory cards, external hard drives, FireWire drives, SSD drives and other storage devices.
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