How to recover data from usb flash drive?

Have you ever found your USB flash drive inaccessible, or even the message that it needs formatting though it already contains precious data? If not you are lucky. If yes and you want to recover your data there is hope. You can use the freeware program PC Inspector file recovery which is available for download at filehippo.com and it is in  fact as it's name sais a file recovery program. You can do it the following way after starting PC Inspector file recovery program.

1) From the menu select Object -> Drive

2) Select the drive components of your flash drive (in my case it was one of e: which contained the files I saved later to my pc ). You can give even preview to view the folder structure of a drive. You can give okay if  you have found your files.

3) At this step you are given a window with two panels: the left one contains the tree structure of the folders for the drive and in the right one are listed the files and folders of the selected folder. In the right panel you have to right click on the selected file or folder and save it to your computer. The image below is the right panel containing the files and folders.

This is a German quality software made by CONVAR, similar file recovery programs would have cost me around 70$ and they even do not perform better. You can try out also PC inspector smart recovery which recovers data from Flash Card™, Smart Media™, SONY Memory Stick™, IBM™ Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card or any other data carrier for digital cameras.