When I plug in my (Sony MicroVault) USB stick into my PC it's being recognized, but I get the message "The drive is not formatted. Do you want to format now?" How can I get access to my data on this USB stick?
2007-04-12 06:23:37 · 7 answers · asked by mermaid 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It may be giving you this message because the data or format on there has been corrupted.
You can try to format it but if you do the you will lose everything on there. If you do format it, make sure you use FAT32 instead of NTFS.
2007-04-12 06:27:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There has been an error on the stick. The data is corrupted. It may be possible for a data recovery professional to restore your data. If the data is not very valuable, then I would suggest not going after that route.
Always try and keep at least a weekly backup of anything that you store on a flash drive. While they do seem very sturdy, and usually are, they can be damaged beyond repair if you are not careful. I have fried several of them accidentally.
2007-04-12 06:40:38 · answer #2 · answered by ncpropes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You only hope relies now on a software application able to retrieve data on corrupted media. If you want to try - no guarantee at all - don't format it yet.
Try a free tool like Recuva. Expensive Ontrack software will give better results, of course.
After recovering (or not) format you drive and it should work as usual.
2007-04-12 06:36:32 · answer #3 · answered by Alban C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like something happened to it that has corrupted the file allotment information (such as it got to close to a magnet). The information that the computer needs to know where the files on the stick begin and end is gone, which means it is unlikely that you will be able to get any data off of it. (You do have a backup, right?).
2007-04-12 06:29:01 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you format after the archives? if so you've lost the archives; If no longer bypass lower back to the unique computer and seem on your archives! in case you locate them reproduction to a temp folder, then reformat lower back to fat32 (USB sticks are pleasant to that format)!
2016-11-23 14:52:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try it in another PC first. It may be that another PC will recognise the data on the disk and you can back it up then.
2007-04-13 00:23:54 · answer #6 · answered by Paxo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DATA IS GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE!!!
2007-04-12 06:33:32 · answer #7 · answered by DJ C 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋