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How to recover data from a unrecognized USB drive?

Storage devices like USB drive, SD card, removable hard disk are widely used for storing files. It happens sometime that the device can not be recognized by computer after some error operation have been done. What exactly things caused the USB devices cant be recognized, and How to prevent? Here it is.


1 defect on device itself
Plug the USB device into the USB port, you could choose other USB ports or even link to another computer for testing if the USB device cant be recognized. If it is a new one and can never be recognized, admit it, you have just bought a bad device.


2 problems with the computer interface
If the device just can not be recognized by your computer, and its totally OK with others. Congratulations, there is some wrong with your computer interface, like reverse connection or unstable voltage in the USB port. In this situation, searching help from professional repairer is the best choice.


3 problem with driver
If there is nothing wrong with the USB device or the computer interface, may be it is drivers problem. Check the computer carefully, try to upgrade the driver to fix this.

4 something wrong with program
Ruling out possible of hard ware, may be there is something wrong with the program. It could caused by computer system or BIOS, set to USB drives accessing prohibited.  We can reset the computer system to address this issue, by pressing key F2 or DEL after rebooting and selecting "enable" in the option of enable USB device.

5 automatic cut-off in USB drive
If temporary trouble happens with USB drive, it will set its cut-off function automatically to protect data. To settle this problem, you can choose device manager from the computers right-click menu, expand controllers of Universal Serial Bus, delete all the option related to USB drive, pull the device out, reinsert it and reload the driver.


If your USB drive still can not be recognized, using professional data recovery software for data restoration.


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