[SOLVED] USB Drive Dragged Into Trash -> Reformatted?

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I recently transferred some files to a friend's Mac Book via a USB thumb drive. After he transferred the files, he dragged the USB drive icon representing my drive into the trash can, in what I think was an attempt to "safely remove hardware". When I went to plug that same thumb drive into my computer (a laptop running Windows 7) I get an "insert disk" error and I can't access any of my files. Did my friend accidentally wipe my drive and is there a way to recover it?

I searched online for solutions and attempted to change the drive destination (from :F to :W) and that failed to work.
 
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No.

The drive can still be accessed, just only by an Apple Mac PC.

Mac uses a file format of UFS, windows uses NTFS.
Both are compatible with FAT32.

Most likely the drive is in UFS and will only work with a mac.


Lesson:
Never be associated with anyone who has a macbook. :D
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I don't know much about Macs, but if you put the USB thumb drive back into your friend's Mac Book, is there an option to restore files in the trash can to the device, like there is in a Windows recycle bin. Hopefully he didn't empty out his trash can already.
 
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No.

The drive can still be accessed, just only by an Apple Mac PC.

Mac uses a file format of UFS, windows uses NTFS.
Both are compatible with FAT32.

Most likely the drive is in UFS and will only work with a mac.


Lesson:
Never be associated with anyone who has a macbook. :D
 
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