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USB - Lost Files

  • 28-11-2009 7:14pm
    #1
    Chilli Con Kearney
    Registered Users Posts: 301 ✭✭


    Hi all

    I hope that I am in the correct area.

    My USB stick has decided to wipe itself and I have lost my whole portfolio and many other important files. Obviously I am very concerned and worried.

    I did not have a back up and now have lost everything. I was recommended to buy an external hard drive as they are not as tempermental as the USBs and did so today. Obviously I will be keeping a back up from now on.

    I had some sort of "Retrieval programme" run by the IT department to try and save my files. I thought that this worked but when I looked through the files (mostly word docs) at home, they were all blank.

    Has anybody any experience with saving USBs or advice on how I might get the files back? Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    recuva download and scan the usb with it


  • #3
    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    Hi,

    To be honest, you might not get these files back but you should at least try. When something similar happened to me, I bought a programme called Recover My Files (which worked perfectly), but that was for an internal hard-disk problem which I had. USB sticks/keys have very poor-quality disks that can only tolerate a certain number of 'write' events. You should never use them as the primary storage area for important files.

    Kevin


  • #4
    gamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭gamer


    SEE HERE ww.pcinspector.de free download.IF a file is important you need to copy it to 2 or 3 hardrives.And copy it to a dvdr disk too.TRY putting the usb drive into another pc, theres programs designed to recover files from usb flash drives.
    see here http://www.data-recovery-usb-drive.com/ or try GET DATA BACK prog from download.com.
    See http://download.cnet.com/GetDataBack-Data-Recovery/3000-2094_4-10061631.html if it finds the relevant data, then buy the full program to carry out recovery process.


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