Using the left and right arrow keys, make sure ‘Undelete’ and selected below.Using the up and down arrow keys, select the partition that was holding the files.Select the partition type, this is most likely going to be ‘Intel’ and press ‘Enter’.Using the arrow keys on your keyboard select the disk you need to recover the deleted file(s) from and then press enter on your keyboard.TestDisk will now scan for drives connected to the computer.When prompted, press enter on your keyboard to create a new log file.A black command prompt window will open.Browse the extracted folders and run “testdisk_win”.This is due to the way FAT32 stores file names separate from the files. If it is you will not be able to recover the names of the deleted files – any recovered files will have a new random name. Chances are the USB drive is using the FAT32 partition format.This means do not download, extract or run TestDisk from the USB drive.

For any hope at recovering the deleted files you must STOP using the USB drive straight away – the more you write to the drive the more of the deleted files you loose forever.File recovery can be a hit and miss process – you might not be able to recover the file(s) completely (which would give you a corrupted file) or at all.This process will not work if the drive has been reformated.In this example we will be recovering a text file and an image. The following steps show how to recover deleted files from a USB drive using TestDisk – a free recovery tool.

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