How to Recover Deleted Documents from Formatted USB Flash Drive?

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Peter

updated on 2018-03-14 to Removable Device Data Recovery

About 1 week ago, I deleted most of documents on an 8GB USB flash drive, and then formatted the USB flash drive three days later. When I realize that I have made a big mistake, all the data on the USB flash drive is gone. I need to recover previously deleted documents from the formatted USB flash drive. I am not sure the deleted documents are still on the USB flash drive. I know I have to take a try because these deleted documents are very important.

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Fortunately, I get the deleted documents back. Do you know how I recover the deleted documents from the formatted USB flash drive? If you also want to recover some already deleted files from a formatted USB flash drive, you can read this article. I will share my experience of recovering deleted documents from formatted USB flash drive. I mean 100% recover the documents, not just some of them.

Easy way to recover deleted documents from formatted USB flash drive

Please don’t put new data to the formatted USB flash drive when you realize you have to recover lost data from it. If you put new data into the formatted USB flash drive, the lost data may be overwritten by the new data. First of all, I just need to find reliable data recovery software. I trust Magoshare Data Recovery. I’ve been using this data recovery software for years. It is very powerful and easy to use. For you, you should download and install it on your PC or Mac.

Magoshare Data Recovery supports to recover all types of lost files including documents, photos, videos, audio, archives, emails, etc. After installing it on computer, just run it to scan the formatted USB flash drive. Here are the steps:

Step 1: Connect the USB flash drive with the computer.

First of all, I connect the USB flash drive with my computer. Then I run Magoshare Data Recovery on this computer. It will automatically recognize and list all the hard drives and external devices on this computer, including the formatted USB flash drive. Now, just select the USB flash drive as the targeted device to start data recovery.

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Step 2: Scan the formatted USB flash drive.

After choosing the formatted USB flash drive, just click on the "Scan" button. Then this software will deeply scan the formatted USB flash drive and find all deleted documents.

recover deleted documents from formatted USB flash drive

Step 3: Preview and recover lost documents.

After scanning, I can preview all documents. Then I select the deleted documents and save all of them to my computer.

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That’s how I recover deleted documents from a formatted USB flash drive. Magoshare Data Recovery makes everything become easy and quick. If you also want to recover deleted documents from formatted USB flash drive, just download this software on your PC or Mac. After deep scan, it will find all your lost documents and files. It can 100% recover deleted documents from formatted USB flash drive.