How to recover lost data from formatted USB flash drive?

Posted by Tim to Data Recovery Tips on April 10th, 2017

I have accidently formatted my 16GB USB flash drive ( FAT32 -> NTFS) with the files i needed. Is there anyway that i can recover lost data from formatted USB flash drive? I've tried many data recovery programs like recuva, pandora, GetDataBack, etc. but I failed. Since then i didnt put any files to the USB flash drive.

The answer is Yes. Please download and try a free format recovery software called iBoysoft Data Recovery, it can recover lost data from formatted USB flash drive, hard drive, external hard drive, USB stick, memory card, SD card, CF card, etc. For Mac data recovery, please go to iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery.

Step-by-step tutorial to recover lost data from formatted USB flash drive with free data recovery software

Step 1: Download and install iBoysoft Data Recovery software on your computer.

Step 2: Connect your formatted USB flash drive to your computer which has been installed iBoysoft Data Recovery software.

Step 3: Run iBoysoft Data Recovery software and choose "Data Recovery" module.

Free format recovery software

Step 4: Select the formatted USB flash drive which you want to recover lost data from and click Next to scan the lost data from formatted USB flash drive.

Recover lost data from formatted USB flash drive

Step 5: The found files will be displayed on search result window, select the files you expect and click Recover to save them.

Please note that don't save the found files to the formatted USB flash drive so that the lost data is overwritten, otherwise, you will lose the data forever.

Besides data recovery from formatted USB flash drive, iBoysoft Data Recovery Free can also recover deleted files, recover deleted or lost partition, convert RAW to NTFS/FAT32 without data loss, recover lost data from RAW hard drive, RAW external hard drive, RAW USB flash drive, RAW USB stick, RAW SD card, RAW CF card, etc. and solve memory card not formatted, USB flash drive not formatted, hard drive not formatted, external hard drive not formatted, SD card not formatted error on Windows 10/8/7/XP and Windows Server 2016/2012/2008/2003.