How to Recover Lost USB Disk Videos?

How to recover lost USB disk videos? As a commonly used tool for storing data, U disk is very popular among users because it is small and portable, making it easy for us to carry it with us. In the process of using a USB flash drive, we will also encounter the trouble of losing some files, such as accidentally deleting the video files inside. What do you do when faced with this situation?

1. Case sharing

"I have a lot of videos on my USB flash drive that record my children's growth, because I am a photography enthusiast. I like to take photos and videos to record life when I have nothing to do. My child is 5 years old from birth to now. I took a lot of photos and videos to record his growth over the past five years. Usually, when the camera's memory card is full, I save the photos and videos I took previously in a USB flash drive, and then empty the camera. I can continue shooting. You can imagine how important the video on the USB flash drive is to me. As a result, something happened to my USB flash drive that day. To be precise, I made some wrong operations and accidentally I lost all the videos on the USB flash drive, which made me panic. I don't know how to retrieve the lost videos on the USB flash drive. Please help me find a way.”

2. Common causes of USB flash drive video loss

• Deleted by mistake, there is no recycle bin on the USB flash drive. After deletion, we cannot see the videos on the USB flash drive;
• Formatting the USB flash drive will cause all the video and other data on it to be lost;
• When the USB flash drive is being read and written, pulling it out directly may easily cause data loss such as videos;
• There are bad sectors in the U disk, and the video happened to be stored in the bad sectors;
• Viruses in U disks. After U disks are infected with viruses on some computers, the videos on them will be deleted or become garbled;
• The U disk partition is damaged and cannot be opened, prompting that it needs to be formatted, which means that the video above will be lost;
• The USB flash drive itself is physically damaged and cannot be recognized by the computer.

3. How to recover lost USB disk videos

From the above we can understand that there are many reasons for the loss of U disk videos. Among them, if the U disk itself is physically damaged and cannot be recognized by the computer, then we need to find a professional repair shop to check the U disk. Whether it can be repaired, after it is repaired, we will connect it to the computer to see if the video is still there, or whether it can be restored.

If the U disk can be read normally by the computer, it is because another cloud is lost. Often the video data is still stored in the U disk, but it is marked with a "idle" mark and we cannot see it. This means that these videos The original positions have been vacated and can be occupied by new data. Before the new data is occupied, they are still stored in it. Once occupied, it means that the new data will overwrite them and the video will disappear completely. Before being overwritten, we still have the possibility of recovering the videos on the USB flash drive.

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We need to use professional data recovery software for recovery, such as iDATAPP Data Recovery. It is very simple to use it to recover lost videos from USB flash drive. It only requires three simple steps: scan-preview-recover to quickly recover. In addition to being able to recover USB flash drive videos, the pictures, files, audios, etc. on it can also be easily recovered.

Step 1. Connect the USB flash drive to the computer and open iDATAPP Data Recovery.

Insert the USB flash drive with lost data on the computer, and then run the USB flash drive data recovery software.

Find the USB flash drive under External Devices and click "Scan" to find lost data.

Step 2. Quick scan and deep scan of USB flash drive.

iDATAPP Data Recovery performs a thorough scan on the USB flash drive to help you find lost data.

Step 3. Recover lost data on removable disk.

After the scan is completed, you can view and preview the data found in the USB flash drive.

Finally, check the required data, execute "Recover", and save the restored data on other external storage devices.

Conclusion

How to recover lost USB disk videos? In the process of using a USB flash drive, data loss will inevitably occur. Remember not to panic and do not continue to write data. Be sure to use iDATAPP Data Recovery software to recover the data before it is overwritten.