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How To Open A Corrupted Pen / Flash / USB Drive

This document provides steps to open a corrupted pen drive or flash drive. It outlines two options: restoring the data by running an error check from the drive properties menu, or reformatting the drive, which will erase all data. To reformat, right click the drive in My Computer, select format, and click start to begin the reformatting process. Reformatting will erase all data on the drive.

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How To Open A Corrupted Pen / Flash / USB Drive

This document provides steps to open a corrupted pen drive or flash drive. It outlines two options: restoring the data by running an error check from the drive properties menu, or reformatting the drive, which will erase all data. To reformat, right click the drive in My Computer, select format, and click start to begin the reformatting process. Reformatting will erase all data on the drive.

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1. 1. Go to Start -> Run -> cmd.

2. 2. Go to your pen drive, memory cards or mobile phone directory.


3. 3. Type del *.lnk (to delete all link files in the directory)
4. 4. Type attrib -h -r -s /s /d e:*.*

5.
6. 5. Replace G with your drive letter.
7. 6. And then press a gentle Enter.
Finish all these steps you can check your files in on the pen drive. If you can’t find the files
you want, you can try another solution: recover shortcut files with EaseUS data recovery
software.

How to open a Corrupted Pen / Flash /


USB drive
Flash drives or Pen drives gives you freedom to carry your data with you or transfer it to
other computers. These days, all personal computers and laptops come with USB port,
making it convenient to mobilize your data using Pen drives. However, a lot of pen
drives get corrupted because of various reasons.

In case you are also stuck with this problem of corrupted flash drives, you don’t need to
visit a computer hardware shop or a technician. You can fix the problem yourself. To
make the flash drive working again, you can either try to restore the data back or format
it that actually will erase the data.

Steps for Restoring:


 Click on the Windows “Start” button.
 Click on Computer or My Computer tab. It will show your Flash drive icon there.
 Right click on your flash drive and choose “Properties”.
 Click on “Tools”
 On the new dialog box, under Error checking to fix your flash drive, Click “Check
Now” button.

Steps for Reformatting the Flash Drive

 Click on the “Start” button.


 Next, click on Computer or My Computer tab.
 Right click on your flash drive and select “Format”.
 Now click on Start at bottom of this dialog box.

Warning : If you choose to reformat your flash drive, it will erase the data.

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