Formatted USB - Any Way to Recover Data?

kruger98 · Mar 23, 2014

Hello all,

Long story short, I foolishly formatted a USB pen drive when creating a boot image of Windows 7. I now need to know if I will be able to recover any of the documents that were on the drive before I formatted it (and copied a Windows image to it). Would any professionals be able to recover the data?

Thanks in advance.

Nightman · Mar 23, 2014

Not only did you delete everything on the USB, but you put something else over it. I'm afraid that data's gone.

Edit: Well, how much data did you have before and how big is the windows image? It is possible that you haven't covered it all.

IRyannHD · Mar 23, 2014

Probably not although you might be able to recover some, I used this on a formatted SD card and got pretty much all my .CR2 files from a studio shoot I had done, only a few were corrupt but you may be able to get some of your work back.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Hope I helped

rgd1101 · Mar 23, 2014

hdd, maybe, flash, no.

STACKS ON DECK · Mar 23, 2014

there is only 10% chance of data to be recovered . . cause i assume you quick format it .. try a good recovery software and then scan this drive . .but as i said not much of a chance

rgd1101 · Mar 23, 2014

Long story short, I foolishly formatted a USB pen drive when creating a boot image of Windows 7. I now need to know if I will be able to recover any of the documents that were on the drive before I formatted it (and copied a Windows image to it).

Is more then just formatted.

kruger98 · Mar 23, 2014

Nightman :

I couldn't have had more than 40 megs worth of vital data on the drive. THe windows image is 4 gig, and the drive is 8 gig.

casper1973 · Mar 23, 2014

Possible but unlikely you will get everything. Maybe a couple of files or even fragments of files. Being a flash drive doesn't help the matter either.

Some free programs to try first:

Recuva - http://www.piriform.com/recuva
EaseUS (first 2GB is free) - http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/
PhotoRec - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

My personal choice (Laregely due to it's ability to recover RAID and Linux)
- Zero Assumption Recovery http://www.z-a-recovery.com/

Nightman · Mar 23, 2014

kruger98 :

In that case it's probably completely gone. I hope the data wasn't too vital.

kruger98 · Mar 23, 2014

Thanks for all your help guys. The files were pretty important (about 4-5 months of work). My fault for not backing it up more regularly.

STACKS ON DECK · Mar 23, 2014

vital data needs backup . . but now it is almost gone . .

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