Recover Data From Pen Drive

Pen drives are a great tool for storing and moving sizeable data from one device to another. In fact, they have virtually replaced the universal compact discs which were the preferred storage medium not many years ago. Today, almost every kind of data is stored in a pen drive - be it as common as images, videos etc. or something as important as your business data.

Given the importance of data, a pen drive failure could be very frustrating for individuals as well as organizations. Pen drives are electronic circuits and they are prone to malfunctions at some point of time. But, if you are smart enough, you can actually retrieve your lost data from a corrupted pen drive or memory card.

Yes, there are memory card recovery softwares available which can do the task efficiently and in no time. To understand the concept of "how to recover data from pen drive", some basic understanding of memory storage is important.

How does memory storage works?

In layman terms, when you save any file in a pen drive or a memory card, it gets written to a memory location. These memory locations are then retrieved by a memory controller (file system), which is a tool in your computer meant for converting machine readable addresses into physical addresses.

In most cases of pen drive corruption, it is the controlller which malfunctions. This malfunctioning of memory controller can be due to various reasons, such as:

• Unplugging the pen drive inappropriately from your computer.
• Unexpected power failure of the device while a file is being saved. In this case, the controller starts to show the entire memory as blank.
• Virus or Trojan attacking the pen drive.
• The pen drive or thumb drive being in use for too long, with too many write operations performed.

In all the cases the data is still there in your drive at certain memory location. However the controller fails to acknowledge it due to malfunctioning. A memory card data recovery software recovers data from pen drive using this very logic of data storage.

Since the data is still there in your pen drive or memory card, the software retrieves it for you so that you can save important data in another location.

What you need to do for data recovery?

If you want to recover data from pen drive, an important first step is to stop using the pen drive immediately. Using the pen drive can overrite the lost data, hence making it irretrievable forever.

 A good memory card recovery software is what you need now. IGEO Memory Card Data Recovery is simple to use software which anyone with a basic knowledge of computers can handle.

1.     Install the software on your computer.

2.     Insert your pen drive in the usb slot.

3.     Run software. Follow instructions to recover lost / deleted files. If you do not wish to retrieve all the files, you can always do selective recovery.

After you recover data from pen drive, store it somewhere else and not on the same drive, since it is prone to malfunction again. Download free trial version now.