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Data recovery from a USB drive that has gone RAW

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tribun Posted messages 64900 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -
Hello,

After unplugging my USB drive without ejecting it from the PC beforehand, it no longer functions properly. When I connect it to my computer, it recognizes it but asks me to reformat it. Having very important data on it, I refused and tried to recover my data in vain. Not being very skilled in computers, I am struggling to follow the instructions given on Google (it’s possible that I may not be doing it right either...).

Anyway, I would like, please, to have a solution to my problem.

My drive is a Kingston DataTraveler111 64GB (I don't know if it's FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS by "default" but I lean towards NTFS). My computer indicates that it is RAW. There are about 6 GB of data on it.

I thank in advance anyone who responds to my request and I beg you to accept the expression of my distinguished feelings towards you.

Best regards,

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    kaumune Posted messages 22605 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 159
     
    Hi

    Try solution 2 from this tutorial

    The idea is to start the PC with Linux (which can see data on a RAW disk), copy the existing data from the USB drive to your hard drive, and then format the USB drive and put the data back on it.

    P.S.: We don't store very important data on a USB drive and we make at least one backup copy.
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