How can i retrive data on a flash drive without formatting it

[Gabby_02]

Please help me... how can i retrive my data from a flash drive that needs to be formatted without formatting it? or formattig it without loosing the data on the drive....... i am realy warriod as i have all my engineering data on it.

 

[miimario221]

you cant recover deleted files/data

 

[clutchc]

If you are getting an error msg saying the flash drive needs to be formatted (and the drive has already been formatted), it has probably failed. Unlike mechanical drives, flash drives have a very limited write cycle life span... especially cheap ones.