Corrupt Flash Drive Photo Recovery

Losing files from a corrupt flash drive is disheartening especially when we have saved all our important photos in it. Things can get even worse if you have not taken a backup of photos deleted from the corrupt flash drive.

Recovering photos from corrupt flash drive is easier now. But make sure you do not opt for any unreliable methods to perform corrupt flash drive photo recovery.

Finding difficulty to restore photos from damaged flash drive? No worries, here are the solutions.

• Repair and Recover using Windows built-in check disk tool
• Restore photos with the help Remo Photo Recovery software

Before opting for any of the above methods, consider these tips. As soon as you realize that your flash drive is corrupt, remove it from the computer or laptop and keep it safe until you recover or repair it.

How can I recover photos from corrupted USB?

Method 1: Fix and Restore Photos from Corrupted Flash Drive

Follow the procedure mentioned below to access photos stored on damaged flash drive.

• Attach flash drive to healthy computer
• Right click on flash drive and press Properties
• Select Tools tab and click on Check Now button
• In the next window, select both “Automatically fix file system errors” and “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors” check boxes
• Hit Start button and wait until scanning process gets completed

Now, go to your flash drive and try to open it. If you fail to open corrupted flash drive even after scanning it using check disk tool, then use recovery software and safeguard your data.

Note- You can also use Remo Photo Recovery Software even before fixing flash drive using check disk tool. So that you can avoid any data loss crisis.

Method 2: Photo Recovery from Corrupted Flash Drive using Remo Recover

Remo Recover is useful in recovering photos and several other file types from corrupted flash drive. This Picture Recovery software is a great tool to perform file recovery from damaged memory cards, external hard drives, FireWire drives, USB Stick and iPods. One can use this tool even when you accidentally format your flash drive.

Tutorial to Recover Photos from Corrupted USB Flash Drive-

• Download, install, and launch the trial edition of Remo Photo Recovery software in your system. Connect the corrupted USB flash drive to the system in which the software is installed
• Click Recover Files from the home screen, and then choose the corrupt flash drive from the list of available drives & click Scan button
• Now the software starts scanning the flash drive to locate files and folders
• Upon the completion of scanning & recovery process, a list of recovered files are displayed in Data View, and File Type View
• Now, preview the recovered files one by one by clicking Preview option
• Finally, if you are completely satisfied with the tool, then purchase the licensed edition and save the recovered files at the location of your choice

Additional Info: To retrieve data from flash drive or to get back data from SDHC on Mac use Remo Recover (Mac).

Features of Remo Photo Recovery Tool-

• Scans complete USB flash drive in few minutes to retrieve deleted files
• Recover all popular photo and several other file formats including digital RAW images
• Powerful scanning algorithms helps to recover corrupted flash drive even in complex data loss problems
• Restore files after formatting your flash drive or after reformatting it from FAT to NTFS or vice versa
• Recovered data can be sorted based on the name, date, size and file type
• Find option helps to trace a particular file based on the date, creation date, extension, size and file name
• Supports USB flash drive recovery on Windows 10, macOS Sierra (previously Mac OS X) and their previous versions
• Supports recovery from most popular flash drives like Kingston Data Traveler, SanDisk Cruzer Blade, Transcend Jet Flash, Lexar Jump Drive, Sony Micro Vault etc.
• Supports corrupt flash drive recovery on both Windows and Mac operating system

Causes of Flash Drive Corruption

Improper ejection of flash drive: If you eject a flash drive suddenly from the computer it may lead to file system corruption on the flash drive. Such action may leave you with a corrupt flash drive with minimal chances of recovery of your photos.

Viruses: Viruses are the most common reason for corruption. Viruses can affect important files in flash drive, which may lead to data loss. It’s a lengthy task of fixing the virus and resetting USB drive for recovery of your data.

Application Error: An improper operation of the application for actions like photo editing or viewing may cause the file corruption on your thumb drive. Use of an external application needs caution for safety of the data, a minor corruption may lead to corruption in your flash drive.

You can safely restore data from flash drive by using Remo Flash Drive Recovery software. You can easily perform pen drive data recovery for your photos and other relevant files with this repair tool.

Related Information

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Recover Deleted Files from Transcend Flash Drive
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Compact Flash Card Recovery
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Recover Mac Files from USB Drive
Mac users also uses external USB drives as they come in very handy. If you use a Mac laptop or a Mac desktop and you want to recover files that are either deleted or lost on the USB drive, then read this section in detail to read about Remo Recover Mac and various steps involved in recovering files from USB drive using your MacBook.