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What is USB?

Before we introduce the unformat usb flash drive freeware, let's learn something about USB at first. For a good few years now, most Motherboards have been built with an on-board facility called USB. USB - Universal Serial Bus, is a 'standard' developed by the computer industry to allow a vast number of different devices to be easily attached to one machine with the minimum requirement for extra drivers and software and still operate at an efficient speed.

Put simply, this means: We can plug a USB device in without switching the PC off, it will be automatically detected by the operating system and will be ready for use in a few seconds. The USB Pen Drive is one of those devices which is also known as Flash Drive, Thumb Drive, USB Flash Drive, or Jump Drives and a removable flash memory storage device that attaches to a computer via USB.

A case of data loss on USB pen drive

I have a 2GB USB flash drive, vendor unknown, (bought from Ebay), 4 computers all running under Win XP Home, with two desktops and two laptops. The problem: I put two folders, each containing several MP3 files on the flash drive called "medialink" and "mrKeen". The drive is written using my IBM desktop. After writing the files, I read them to see that they are OK. Then I eject the flash drive using the ejection software in the System Tray, then replug the drive and look again at the two folders. Now one of them is empty! Where did the files go? How do I recover them? It didn't used to work this way. How do I determine the cause?

Apart from the case above, some other kinds of affairs can also cause data loss on USB pen drive.

Virus attack
Power surges & electro-static discharge
Not properly removing the USB pen drive from a computer
Accidently delete files from USB pen drive
Accidently format USB pen drive
The file system of USB pen drive is displayed as raw
Windows may ask if you want to format the USB pen drive

The best unformat usb pen drive freeware

With the widely use of USB pen drive, people may formatted their USB pen drive by accident usually. If you encountered this issues, an unformat USB pen drive freeware will be the best choice. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is the best unformat USB pen drive freeware. It provides formatted file recovery, deleted file recovery and partition recovery etc. Compared to other free data recovery software, it provides easy and quick data recovery solutions. Even you didn't use data recovery software before; you can also use the software smoothly and successfully in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7.

It also support hard drive disk data recovery, external hard drive files recovery, hardware RAID recovery, EXT2/EXT3 data recovery, etc.

EaseUS USB pen drive unformat freeware

How to use the best unformat usb pen drive freeware to recover data from a formatted usb flash drive?

Here comes the details, please choose the right mode to recover files:

If the data was lost due to usb drive format, you could try Complete Recovery module. By the way, this module also supports data recovery from virus attack, software crash, hard drive not formatted error, etc.

If the data was just deleted, or by Shift Delete directly, you could try Deleted File Recovery module to recover deleted data.

If the whole partition was lost or deleted, or the Windows Explorer cannot detect the card, Partition Recovery module is the right choice to do partition recovery.