Flash Drive Formatting Required, Possible Data Loss - How to Recover?

[Korwynn Brown]

Due to some mitigating circumstances, someone plugged my USB drive into their Wii. Upon trying to plug it in to my own computer again, a message came up saying it needs to be formatted. I clicked okay, but (thankfully) another message came up saying that doing so would erase all the data on there; I immediately clicked cancel.

My question is, is there a way to recover all of the data on there drive before formatting it? I haven't had the opportunity to make backups for several weeks at least, so there's a lot of stuff I need to be able to save, if at all possible. Thank you for your time.

[RBL]

It's likely the data is still there and the file system was corrupted by the Wii.

I would write-protect the device if it supports it. I would then look at flash drive recovery tools. Windows will wipe it if you allow it to be formatted.

For tools see here:  http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4985/~/data-recovery-for-memory-cards-and-flash-drives

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On Sep 12, 2014 7:39 PM, "Korwynn Brown" <korwyn...@gmail.com> wrote:

Due to some mitigating circumstances, someone plugged my USB drive into their Wii. Upon trying to plug it in to my own computer again, a message came up saying it needs to be formatted. I clicked okay, but (thankfully) another message came up saying that doing so would erase all the data on there; I immediately clicked cancel.

My question is, is there a way to recover all of the data on there drive before formatting it? I haven't had the opportunity to make backups for several weeks at least, so there's a lot of stuff I need to be able to save, if at all possible. Thank you for your time.

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[David Moskowitz]

You might also try to see if you can read the disk in Linux. That has more file system drivers than anything else. That may allow you to get the files off the drive.  I just did that to read and Mac OSX formatted drive -- seamless, the Linux Mint 17 (Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, OpenSuse also work) recognized the drive and...  easy.

David

[RBL]

+1

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