Have you recently formatted your thumb drive and found that the data you saved on it is lost? Are you looking for ways to recover data from the formatted flash drive? If so, don't worry, just access this complete blog and solve your solutions soon.

Sometimes it happens that you recklessly format your thumb drive due to incorrect operation. In addition, there are some situations where you format the pen drive just because you cannot use the USB flash drive normally without formatting it. But remember that formatting the flash drive erases all data stored on the flash drive or the USB drive. Don't worry, here in this post, you will get the best solutions that can help you recover files after formatting the thumb drive.

Solutions to Recover Formatted Files from USB Drive
Recover formatted files from backup files

Cautious users always back up important data periodically. Thus, if their data are lost due to various reasons including mistaken data deletion, accidental partition formatting or deletion, hardware failure or other reasons, they can easily and quickly restore lost data from backup files.

However, what should we do if there is no backup file?



If there is no backup files, you can recover formatted files from USB drive by the following 2 ways.



Recover formatted files by turning to data recovery companies or data recovery software

If you don't want to spend time learning a new program, turning to data recovery companies is a good choice for you to recover lost data from formatted drive.

However, I prefer to spend time and effort recovering formatted files by myself using a professional file recovery software due to the fact that I don't want to spend a lot of money restoring data. Furthermore, data recovery companies cannot make sure to keep my data security.

And, here, I want to share an excellent tool – MiniTool Power Data Recovery- with you to help you rescue lost data from formatted drive.

Want to know more details about MiniTool Power Data Recovery?

Here's how to use this excellent data recovery software to recover formatted USB.

How to Recover Data from Formatted USB Drive Free
Here, this user can try the following steps to recover files after formatting drive.

1. Download MiniTool Power Data Recovery

2. Install MiniTool Power Data Recovery on computer according to actual needs.

3. Connect USB drive to computer.

3 Steps to Recover Data from Formatted USB Flash Drive
All the data recovery steps are logical and easy like 1-2-3.

Step 1: Launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery, and select Removable Disk Drive to recover files after formatting.



In the main interface of this professional and free data recovery software, you can see 4 different data recovery modules, and each of them focuses on different data loss scenarios.



This PC: this data recovery module focuses on recovering lost or deleted data from damaged, RAW or formatted partitions. In other words, as long as the partition exists, you can recover them by using this data recovery module.

Removable Disk Drive: it is designed to recover lost photos, mp3/mp4 files, and videos from flash drives and memory sticks.

Hard Disk Drive: it can recover files from deleted or lost partition after Windows reinstallation.

CD/DVD Drive: it helps to recover data from formatted or erased CD/DVD discs with ease.

Here, you can click Removable Disk Drive to recover formatted USB.

Step 2: Select the USB drive and then click Scan button.

It is recommended to wait for the full scan to finish in order to get the best recovery result.

In this window, you can click "Settings" tab to specify needed file system (such as FAT12/16/32, NTFS and HFS+) and file types (including Documents, Archive, Graphics/Picture, Audio, E-mail, Database and other files).

Step 3: Select all needed files, and save them to by clicking Save button located at the lower right corner.

Don't directly store needed data in the original partition (USB drive) where data loss emerges, or the deleted data will be overwritten, causing permanently data damage or data loss.

In this window, you can export all scanning results to a specified place after scanning, which makes it possible to load previous results without rescanning. BUT, please do not export results to the location where data loss appears, because it may overwrite lost data, as shown below.

Thus, all work has been done.

Solved - USB Drive not Formatted Error
As we know, if we mistakenly formatted USB drive, we can try using MiniTool Power Data Recovery to get lost data back as long as the lost data has not been overwritten! However, what should we do if we encounter the "USB Drive not Formatted" error?

What Is "USB Drive not Formatted" Error?

When you access your USB drive to your PC, you may get the following message:

"You need to format the drive before you can use it. Do you want to format it?"



In this situation, you cannot read the USB drive data. And, system tells us if you want to read it, you need to format it at first.



Have you ever encountered such error messages while trying to access data on your USB flash drive? What you did next? Formatted your USB drive to read data?

How to Solve The "USB Drive not Formatted" Error?

DO NOT FORMAT THIS DRIVE IMMEDIATELY!!! Otherwise, you will lose your original data.

Here, people who succeed solving the "USB Drive not Formatted" error do 2 things very well.

First, they recover data from the not formatted drive by using professional data recovery software like MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

Second, they format this drive to move out this error.

Click Play button to learn how to solve the "you need to format the disk before you can use" error.

Conclusion
Well, a situation like the loss of media from the flash drive can occur due to several reasons. If you have an accidentally formatted flash drive, don't worry, just make sure you don't copy any new data onto the formatted flash drive.

You can try the best solution to recover data from the formatted flash drive using MiniTool Power Data Recovery tool or using the command option or the backup option.

Try the solutions mentioned in the section above this blog and recover files from formatted USB drive with ease.

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