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Are you facing any problem with your USB pen drive ?
Top 10 USB drive / pen drive related problems and fixes:
- Computer Does Not Detect Pen Drive or USB Drive or i-pod : This kind of problem is faced due to some bad registry settings. After you fix up the registry, the USB drive will work fine. To fix this issue, see this post.
- Pen Drive or USB Mass storage device disabled at office or college or school: At many offices and colleges, the IT people disable or block the use of pen drives. To enable the USB drive when it is blocked, see this post.
- Problem in removing pen drive: When you try to remove the pen drive via safely remove hardware option, it gives error “Generic volume can not be stopped right now”. It may damage your pen drive if it is removed without stopping it properly. To fix this error, read this post.
- Protect computer from virus in pen drive: Many of the deadly viruses spread easily through use of pen drive. To see the safety tips on how to protect the computer from virus infection by pen drive, see this post.
- USB drive is detected, but not shown in My Computer: This kind of problem is also seen in cases of conflict over drive letter assignment by windows. The drive is there and detected but without a valid drive letter assigned to it. See the fix to this problem here.
- Problem in formatting pen drive: Sometimes when you try to format the pen drive, you might see an error which says “Can not format the drive”. There can be several reasons for this. To fix this problem, see this post.
- USB Device has Malfunctioned: This one of the unusual warnings which you get sometimes, the solutions to this problems sounds silly, but it works, see the solution here.
- Delayed Write failed error: This is another kind of error which is more common with USB hard drives due to some error in File allocation table. This problem can be fixed by following few simple steps. See the fix here.
- Disable data writing on pen drive: This is one of the articles which tells you how you can stop data writing on your pen drive on a particular computer. This will save the drive from getting virus infections. See the post here.
- Fixed SATA Drive shown in removable USB drive list: This problem we have recently seen for many users. This is a kind for feature in a certain RAID configuration, but annoys many users. See the fix for this trouble here.
USB drive not showing any data, and could not able to find single trace of data? Then, straightaway download Remo Recover software to get bcak all your data from dead USB drive in 4 easy steps.
Pen Drive Files Not Showing Shortcuts
- Find out the letter assigned to your USB drive and then run command prompt
- After that change drive letter to your USB drive’s letter and press enter
- Then to make your data unhidden type attrib “Folder name” – USB drive letter
After doing this you can see the data stored in USB flash drive in case files were hidden. Even after doing this if you can’t find your files and folders on USB, don’t worry!!! You can restore data from USB drive that showing no data or even dead, by using reliable data recovery tools. Note that you don’t save any new data to USB drive displaying no data. You might wonder why your USB drive is not showing any data, it is because of virus infection, faulty hardware, etc.
Remo Recover software is completely free from virus and it includes user friendly graphical interface, which helps you to recover data from USB drive showing no data in just few mouse clicks. Even the deleted, formatted, corrupted, and lost partition from USB drive can be recovered with this software. It includes highly advance data recovery algorithms that perform rigorous scanning of entire USB flash drive to restore lost files. This is the most widely used USB drive data recovery software around the globe, as it posse 100% data recovery rate from USB devices not showing files. The renowned Kingston USB flash drive data recovery tool recovers data from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 file system based USB drives. This software is highly compatible with all major versions of Windows operating system like Windows 2000, Windows 2002, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. It also supports all brands of USB flash drives like SanDisk, HP, Transcend, Sony, Toshiba, etc. This USB Drive recovery software also recovers data from external hard drive, memory card, pen drive, and other storage devices. Recovers documents, audios, videos and other important data stored in USB drive in just couple of minutes. Remo Recover Mac edition enables you to perform dead USB flash drive data recovery Mac with maxumum accuracy and efficiency.
- Do not format USB drive, if not really necessary.
- Avoid abrupt removal of USB flash drive while transferring data from system to USB drive or vice versa.
- To access the USB drive faster, make sure to keep it safe from any kind of virus/malware.
Steps to recover files from USB drive showing no data: -
Figure A: Main Screen
Figure B: Select USB Drive
Figure C: Recovered Data View
Figure D: Preview Recoverable Data
Figure E: Save Recoverable Data
By that I was able to recover what I remembered only. But I need the full amount of data.
Please Help me?
Why is USB pen drive not showing data but space used
How to fix pen drive not showing data and retrieve files
Method 1. Unhide files using CMD while pen drive not showing data
Method 2. Recover files with EaseUS recovery software when pen drive not showing data
- First, please connect your pen drive to your computer.
- Then you can run EaseUS pen drive recovery software - Data Recovery Wizard on your PC.
- On the main interface, choose your pen drive under External Devices, and click Scan to start the pen drive recovery process.
All your files will be listed here:
- Delete Files: It lists your deleted files.
- Drive: It loads all your lost files there.
- Lost Partition Files: Check it first if it's for formatted recovery.
- Extra Files: Finds files that lost names or paths.
- Filter: A quick way to your wanted files.
- Search: e.g. File name/file extension.
- Check those three tabs - Deleted Files, Lost Partition Files or Extra Files to find your files, and you can double-click to preview them.
- Finally, click 'Recover' to save them to a secure location on your PC or another external storage device.