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Corrupted files on USB Flash Drive?
My son has done some college work at home and saved it directly to a brand
new 4GB FAT32 USB flash drive, which he Ejected before removal. Now he is at college, and can't open the files. The directory structure is visible, but when he tries to open a file (for example a PNG), Windows reports the file is corrupted. He has emailed on of the files to me, and I get the same result. All the utilities I can find seem to focus on lost or deleted files, not corrupted ones. Any suggestions? -- Nigel M If I'm discussing apples, please don't suggest bananas |
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Corrupted files on USB Flash Drive?
Nigel Molesworth wrote:
My son has done some college work at home and saved it directly to a brand new 4GB FAT32 USB flash drive, which he Ejected before removal. Now he is at college, and can't open the files. The directory structure is visible, but when he tries to open a file (for example a PNG), Windows reports the file is corrupted. He has emailed on of the files to me, and I get the same result. All the utilities I can find seem to focus on lost or deleted files, not corrupted ones. Any suggestions? Tell your son it's a hard way to learn the important lesson of never saving files directly to a USB thumb drive. The files are corrupted and are lost. The good data has been ruined and there's nothing he can do but start over. And save his work to the hard drive first and then copy it to a thumb drive. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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Corrupted files on USB Flash Drive?
You can try to retrieve the data with Easeus ( 'Easeus Data Recovery Wizard :: How-To Geek Reviews' (http://www.howtogeek.com/reviews/eas...covery-wizard/) ). -- whs |
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Corrupted files on USB Flash Drive?
whs wrote:
You can try to retrieve the data with Easeus ( 'Easeus Data Recovery Wizard :: How-To Geek Reviews' (http://www.howtogeek.com/reviews/eas...covery-wizard/) ). The problem that the OP has is not that the files were deleted but that they are corrupted. Data recovery software will work in the first instance but not be useful in the second (the OP's situation). IOW, if you save a file called MyNovel.doc and overwrite it with a blank document of the same name or the file has become corrupted, data recovery software will recover MyNovel.doc but it will not magically have become a document that has all the original data intact. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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Corrupted files on USB Flash Drive?
You will want to reformat your USB drive as FAT32. Of course you will lose all data. -- lemur ::If *ANYONE* in this forum helps you, please click on their *REP* icon. Thanks! (the middle scale icon in the upper right corner):: |