Solution to restore photos off formatted flash drive

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"My large external hard drive stored all my backup files with true image, however things got weird with my PC and all the backup plan did not work very well and so did it to my external flash drive. It is a 32GB USB flash drive that I moved all my photos from my canon digital camera to the flash drive for a storage. It is my habit to get precious data a backup. When my PC got wired performance after using some registry defragger, it became worse and worse. When I connect the usb flash drive to my PC for a new batch of photo storage, the bad PC did not recognize it and reported not formatted. I accidentally clicked "Yes" to format the flash drive and then all previous photos got erased. I wish to make a photo recovery from the formatted flash drive."

Photo recovery off formatted usb flash drive is possible?

The best chance of a photo recover off formatted drive is to keep the drive untouched after the reformat. All expert would tell you any new file accepted to the reformatted drive would make old files permanently erased, no chance for a complete data recovery. The vital tip is not to use the flash drive again before you find some recovery tool to get photos off the flash.

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Which recovery module shall I select?

"Lost Partition Recovery": Recovering files when partition lost or deleted with following symptoms:

• deleted partition by mistake
• bad partition table
• partition lost without a reason
• partition or drive not detected by PC

"Advanced File Recovery": Recovering files with the following symptoms.

• SHIFT+DELETE command keys
• partition inaccessible but is visiable in PC under "Disk Management".
• emptied recycle bin
• symptom - drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now

"Deep Scan Recovery": the most powerful recovery module that searches every byte

• system crashes
• bad MBR, bad partition table, bad boot sector
• bad file allocation table
• software failure like merg partition failure, resize partition failure, ghost failure
• RAID array damaged
• symptom - drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now
• RAW file system, raw drive

"Format Recovery": Recoveirng files related with format problems

• formatted partition, card etc by mistake
• CHKDSK is not available for RAW drive
• Pressed restore button of iPod, iPhone, iTouch, blackberry

For any unstated data loss rescue, we recommend you to use "Deep Scan Recovery" to search lost files.

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