Flash Drive Data Recovery

Flash drive data recovery, USB data recovery and stick drive data recovery presents unique opportunities to salvage valuable information from drives that have been damaged, corrupted or otherwise stopped working. Unfortunately, many people wrongly assume that data cannot be recovered from such devices and so throw them away, losing precious data and irreplaceable personal information. Platinum Data Recovery services can easily recover most data from damaged or malfunctioning flash drives, but the following steps must be taken in order to secure the device and stop the spread of damage. For the best results with a flash drive data recovery project, please consider the following:

*Immediately stop using the device.
*Turn the device off and disconnect the power supply.
*Call us right away, and if directed to do so;
*Carefully package and ship the item to us to ensure expedient and secure delivery

There could be a number of reasons that your flash drive stopped working, including physical damage or trauma, excessive pressures or temperatures, improper insertion, condensation or exposure to other contaminants like liquids and food items, submersion, corruption of data, and a number of software-related issues that can cause a flash drive to malfunction. The following is a further list of explanations as to what could be wrong with your drive:

• Damaged flash drive’s or USB drive’s read/write heads
• Flash drive or USB drive exposed to a liquid, such as water, coffee, condensation, battery leaks, etc.
• Flash drive or USB drive failed due to unprotected or misdirected/mishandled power surge
• Inadvertent or incorrectly formatted drive
• Damaged file allocation table
• Corrupted master file table
• BIOS not recognizing flash drive or USB drive
• Flash drive with burnt chips
• Flash drive head crash
• Files or folders missing
• Boot sector not recognized

These problems comprise two types relative to your flash drive data recovery needs:

Logical Failure

A logical failure is one where the data itself is problematic, or the system has been exposed to a malicious virus or other code where the data recovery process must work to recover information byte-by-byte. A logical failure requiring flash drive data recovery could also consist of accidentally deleted or lost data, or an inadvertent or improper drive reformatting.

Physical Failure

Physical failure requiring a flash drive data recovery solution usually occurs as a result of some type of damage or trauma to the device that renders it unreadable. This could be as a result of dropping the unit, of improper installation or insertion techniques, contamination with dirt, debris, food and/or liquids, or any other cause of physical damage. In cases such as these, delicate tools and instruments must be used in order to extract the data intact. Platinum data recovery specializes in cases exactly like this and has the skills and equipment needed to securely recover your data.

Because there is often only one chance to recover your data, please call us immediately if your flash drive or USB drive has stopped working. We offer the most comprehensive flash drive data recovery services in the industry with the highest success rates available. Call us now.