A USB flash drives stores all its data in the memory similar to a hard drive. The operating system can, later on, fetch this data when required to be accessed. There can be various issues that may turn your USB drive data inaccessible.
Such as if the drive is unmounted improperly from the port then it can lead to data corruption. Another reason for the stores’ data corruption can be invalid data in the Master Boot Record (MBR) or Partition Boot Record (PBR) or directory structure on the USB drive.
There can be various other reasons that may turn your USB not working. This may happen either due to physical corruption or logical corruption. The common hardware/physical issues are broken stems and connectors, dead drives (no power supply), broken circuit or NAND gate, not recognised, RAW, need to format, not accessible, and Dead Drives, etc.
To recover data from an inaccessible USB or Flash drive, first, you must be able to identify the exact reason leading to the problem while reading the USB drive.
You can troubleshoot the problems using Windows by following the steps below:
Insert the USB drive into the USB port of your system
Go to My Computer>Removable Disk Icon.
Right click the Removable Disk Icon and
open its Properties
Click on the Tools tab.
Click Check Now button.
You will be given two check disk options “Automatically fix file system errors” and “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors”.
Check both check boxes.
Click Start. This will initiate the scanning process.
Click Close after the scan process is completed.
If you are using Windows 7 then carry out the following steps to repair the USB Flash Drive:
Insert the USB drive into the USB port of your system
Go to My Computer>Removable Disk Icon.
Right click the Removable Disk Icon and
open its Properties
Click on the Tools tab.
Click “Rebuild” button
Let the scan process get completed. Close
the scan window once it’s completed.
Right-click the icon of the USB flash drive
and “Eject”.
Then remove the drive from the USB port.
Hopefully, this would help you solve your problem.
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