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May 12, 2010
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Is there a mac app that can recover a suddenly unreadable thumb drive?

it was working fine when suddenly I plugged it into my pc, & a message showed me that I needed to format the drive.

I then plugged it into my mac & the same thing happened, it wanted to format it, it was showing as a blank drive. It was a fairly full drive, not completely full.

I found disk drill, & the free version is no good, it will only recover if I pay a hefty $89.00 dollars for an upgrade to the "pro" version.

are there any other truly free or under $50.00 apps that will find & recover my files?
 
What file system was the drive using prior to it becoming corrupted? Obviously, you can't check now. If you remember, though, please share - it'll help us locate software.
 
Tough Luck, I think

Last three times that happened to me (on different thumb drives) it meant that the drive was no more, it ceased to exist, broke, kicked the bucket...
Sorry
Even your files are probably gone
thumb drives are only good for data transport, not data storage.

best of luck in future thumb drives. ;)
 
What file system was the drive using prior to it becoming corrupted? Obviously, you can't check now. If you remember, though, please share - it'll help us locate software.


It was FAT32, an 16gb vHPw
 
I dont understand how to find the actual program to run, I downloaded a rar file, but there does not seem to be an actual app to click on & run.

unpack the rar file with some kind of file extraction program. rar is a filetype that compresses kind of like .zip does. unpack the file and use the .dmg file that is probably contained within. good luck. hope you get your data back.
 
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