Although USBs are great for a variety of things, they are electronic devices and can suffer internal damage from use or manufacturing defects . You can also delete data on them that you really didn’t want to delete. Therefore, we should learn how to recover files from USB because we trust them to work properly and save our important files on them. In this tutorial you can find the most appropriate solution for your situation and carry it out.
Index of contents
- Recover USB drive using CMD
- Restore files from USB
- Usando 4DDiG Windows Data Recovery
Recover USB drive using CMD
To recover deleted files on a USB drive without programs, you can do it via CMD, following these steps:
- Press Win + R. When the window appears, type cmd and press ENTER to execute and the Windows console or CMD.exe will appear.
- Then type the command chkdsk F: /fand press ENTER. The letter F must be replaced by the letter that corresponds to the USB that you are trying to recover.
- Then type Yand press ENTER.
- Now type Fand press ENTER again. (Do not forget that this letter “F” must be replaced by the one that corresponds to your USB).
- Finally type F: \>attrib -h -h -r -s /s /d *. and press INTRO.
Remember to replace the letter F with the drive letter that corresponds to your case or it will not work.
Restore files from USB
It is also possible to restore files using Windows automatic file backups . This method is simpler than the previous one and requires fewer steps to complete. To do so, we will follow the following steps:
- Find the USB drive that contains the files you want to recover.
- Click with the right mouse button on the unit in question.
- Then select the “Restore Previous Versions” option from the pop-up menu.
- You will see the containing folders and you will have to choose the most recent to the day you accidentally deleted the file. If he was that day, he will recover. You can also filter if you want with the options it gives you.
- Then, inside the folder, find the file you want to recover, copy and paste outside the containing folder to complete the recovery.
This type of process only works with the most recent versions of Windows, since the older ones did not implement this function.
Usando 4DDiG Windows Data Recovery
We can also use third party tools if you prefer or if the above methods have not worked. There are a lot of forensic tools to recover deleted files, one of which you can find and that has an easy GUI is this one.
In our tutorial, we offer a solution that requires an alternative program to work. It is wrong to think that downloading an app is always a bad option. The priority, in addition to our data, should be our health, speed and efficiency. If a program offers us the most efficient care, we should download and install Tenorshare 4DDiG – Windows Data Recovery . We will start by downloading and installing this application on our computer. It will take about five minutes to install. Below, you can start the step-by-step installation process that we have put together for you:
- Run the program.
- From its graphical interface, select the USB locationwhere you want to recover files.
- Then click Get Started.
- After a few minutes, you will see the result of all the deleted files it has found.
- Select the file or files you want to recover and click Recover.
- Now select a place to save the recovered files and you are good to go.
