How to Recover Deleted Files from USB drives?

If you delete files from USB drive, pen drive or a memory card attached to your computer the deleted data is not moved to the recycle bin instead it will be removed instantly. This is annoying and could be unknown to many users.

The Windows recycle bin does not manages the external removable devices and hence users must not rely on the recycle bin for holding up the deleted data temporarily as this can prove fatal and eventually could lead to loss of crucial data.

Recovering lost or deleted is simple with Undelete software. We have highlighted few simple steps to recover deleted data from external removable USB devices.

Few simple steps to recover deleted files using undelete

• Download Recycle Bin Recovery Software to any partition / drive that is safe and from where you are not planning to recover deleted data. This ensures that you are not overwriting the deleted by saving, downloading new files to the partition / drive from where deletion has happened. You can download and install the software to any partition using Recycle Bin Recovery Software simple to install setup. The software supports Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 or Windows 2008
• Log in to your Windows as Local System Administrator, disable the UAC account (Do not notify) to install the software
• You must check system requirements to ensure that you are meeting the hardware or other necessary requirements to run the software effectively.

How to use Undelete

Step 1: Launch the application, by double clicking the desktop shortcut or by selecting the icon from the Programs list in the Start Menu. The Main Screen is displayed as shown in Figure 1. From the main screen, select the "Recover Files" option as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Application Main Screen

Step 2: From the next window, select the "Advanced File Recovery" option to manually select the USB drive from the list of logical drives and recover deleted files from USB drive.

Step 3: Once you click on "Advanced File Recovery", the list of detected logical drives are displayed as shown in Figure 2. Select the USB drive which is displayed as a logical drive and proceed with the recovery process.

Figure 2: Select USB Drive

Step 4: Select the appropriate file format and search for files based on their unique signature as shown in Figure 3. You can alternatively skip this step and continue with the scanning process by selecting the "Skip" option.

Figure 3: Select File Type

Step 5: Once you select the file type and click on "Next", the software starts scanning the selected USB drive for the deleted files. On completion of the scanning process, the software displays the recovered files. The recovered files can be viewed using the Data View or the File Type View option as shown in Figure 4. You can use the "Preview" option to preview the recovered files and to evaluate the recovery results.

Step 6: You can use the "Save Recovery Session" option to save the scanned information of a session. You can later purchase the full version of the software, activate it and use the "Open Recovery Session" option to load the scan information and continue with saving the recovered files, without having to rescan the entire USB drive

 

Figure 4: View Recovered Files

Note: Save the recovered data to another healthy drive / partition. Never download or store new data to the drive from where you want to recover your deleted data.