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Pictures lost from a USB Drive

The file system of the USB flash drive becomes corrupt after a fatal virus attack, which further results in inaccessibility of its stored data. If you don't have a back-up of the lost data, then you will need to use a picture recovery software to recover your lost files.

Author: Fun Anku

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A USB Flash Drive or USB Drive is a flash memory data storage device combined with a USB interface. They have, in a way, replaced the floppy diskette. Their storage capacity is very high with some drives going up to 256 GB storage. However, USB flash drive being a technical device is prone get affected from virus. The file system of the USB flash drive becomes corrupt after a fatal virus attack, which further results in inaccessibility of its stored data. This is the reason why it is always advised to maintain two copies of all photos, audio files and video clips on two different storage media.. However, if you don't have a back-up of the lost data, then you will need to use a picture recovery software to recover your lost files.

Imagine the excitement of a budding fashion designer, who has designed a new collection. He stores the pictures of the collection on his USB Flash drive and goes out of town to show-off his new collection. He connects his USB drive to a computer to rehearse the presentation, but gets an error message saying that his pictures are inaccessible.

What could have gone wrong?

It's hard to imagine something like that happening to anyone. The cause of the problem is ignorance towards computer viruses. Most people are quite careless when it comes to checking a computer for viruses.

In this case also, the USB drive is connected to a system that is virus infected. The virus in the computer damages the files system of the USB Flash Drive, which further renders in inaccessibility of data.

What to do next?

The first thing to do is run a virus scan to check and remove the virus. Ensure that the anti-virus being used is up-to-date and from a trusted company. The next thing after any virus infection, is to format the USB Flash Drive. This is an additional step done to double check the virus removal. Formatting a device erases all the information from it. This includes your picture and other multimedia files.

After formatting the drive, use a picture recovery software to retrieve your formatted photos, videos and other files. Ensure to use a trusted tool that is known to perform safe and efficient picture recovery. These applications are specially designed to recoup audio-visual data from various storage devices, even after they have been formatted.

Whom to trust?

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is one of the most trusted software in this field. It is a picture recovery software that can recover lost, missing, deleted, or formatted data from all types of storage devices. It is a read only software, which does not modify or overwrite the original contents of USB Flash Drive and other storage media. The software supports Mac and Windows OS.

About Author

Fun Anku has 6 Years of Experience in the Software Technology researching with Stellar Information Systems Ltd that offers Camera recovery software and Deleted picture recovery software For more info, visit : http://www.picture-recovery.net

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Pictures lost from a USB Drive