MicroSD recovery is a very popular topic in our time, because flash drives break very often, and you don’t want to lose information from them.

Therefore, many people are looking on the Internet for information on how the easiest way to get information from a medium that does not work.

Moreover, the problems can be very different - someone's flash drive simply cannot be restored, someone has errors, and so on.

And the answer to the above question is very simple - there is a special program for recovering MicroSD, and far from one.

The user only needs to use the most suitable of them.

MicroSD recovery software

CardRecovery

This program does an excellent job of recovering photos, video and audio content from storage media.

Unfortunately, it does not restore regular files, which is why it is intended only for those flash drives that are used in mobile phones, cameras and players.

How to use CardRecovery:

1. Download the program from this link. Run it, read the greeting and click Next.
2. We select the flash drive in the Drive letter section, the device type in the “Camera Brand and File type” section (check the boxes next to the types of files that will be restored there) and the folder where the recovered files will be saved in the Destination Folder section. Click Next.
3. We are waiting for the end of the recovery process. Click Next.
4. We see a list of recovered files. Check the boxes next to the ones you want to keep. Click Next for the last time. The process is over.

PC Inspector Smart Recovery

This is already a much more functional program that recovers almost all types of files available today.

It works for both fixed hard drives and removable media. To use it, you must do the following:

1. Download the program from this link. Open it.
2. In the start window, select the "Restore logical files" item. You may need to click on the tab with the green up arrow on the left.
3. Next, you need to select the desired drive on one of the tabs (it can also be among logical drives). Click on the checkbox on the right.

Hint: You can find out the letter and name of the flash drive in Windows in “My Computer” (“Computer”, “This Computer”, depending on the OS).

1. Select a start and end sector. You need to do this so that the scan size matches the size of the media. Click on the checkbox on the left.
2. Next we will see a list of all files. Green indicates those that can be restored, and yellow indicates those that do not require restoration. After that, you need to click on the floppy disk icon on the left.

R-Studio

On the official website they write that today it is the most “comprehensive” file recovery software.

Users do not resist this conclusion. To recover data using R-Studio, do the following:

1. Download the program (here is the link) and run it.
2. In the Drivers section, click on the media from which the data will be restored. The Properties section will display its properties.
3. Further, the folders will be displayed in the Folders section, and the files in this folder will be displayed in the Contents section. To restore them, you need to click on the Recover button on the top panel of the program window.

Easy Recovery

Many experts say that this is indeed good program to restore files. There is only one way to check this:

1. Download free version programs from this link and run it.
2. In the start window, click "Continue". In the next select "Memory cards".
3. Click "Continue" again. Select "Data Recovery" and check the box below file system this carrier.
4. Click "Continue" again. Wait for the end of the scan deleted files and windows with a report on the list of deleted files and folders. On each, you can right-click and select "Save As ...".

Flash Memory Toolkit

This is a very versatile program.

In addition to recovery, it can also perform the functions of testing, destruction confidential information, backup and get detailed information about the device.

To recover data, you just need to select the flash drive in the Device section, click on the File Recovery item in the menu on the left and follow all the instructions of the program.

Clue: All of the above programs can be downloaded for free on the non-commercial resource flashboot.ru.

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Sometimes the recovery of a MicroSD flash drive using the above programs does not go as smoothly as you would like - some problems may arise.

Consider the most common of them.

Problems with microSD recovery

MicroSD not detected

It happens that you need to restore the MicroSD card, but the computer - tritely - does not see it.

Interestingly, this usually happens completely unexpectedly and without visible reasons: the user inserts the card again, and suddenly the computer stops seeing it (it used to insert it, and everything was fine).

In this case, there are three options:

1. 1. The letter of the disk name matches the letter of the already connected disk. Indeed, it is possible that some kind of storage medium is already connected to the computer, and for some reason the flash drive is indicated by the same letter when connected. In this case, you need to open the standard Disk Management utility (Win + R and enter "diskmgmt.msc"), select the flash drive there, right-click on it and select "Change drive letter or drive path." After that, it remains to specify some other letter of the Latin alphabet and save the changes.

1. 1. Lack of drivers. In some cases, both the old tested computer and the new computer with a freshly installed operating system may not have drivers for some media. There is only one way out - download and install them. The best thing to do is to search on the official website. You can use the program. You can download it from . It independently determines which devices are connected to the computer and whether there are driver updates for them. It is convenient that the program itself will determine whether the drivers for the flash drive are installed. If this is not the case, they will be installed in bulk, along with everyone else. To do this, the user just needs to click on the "Drivers" tab on the left and click on the "Install automatically" button.

1. You can also try connecting the memory card to another device. This will give you a chance to read necessary files and use the recovery program. For example, you can insert a MicroSD into your phone and restore not the card itself, but the entire phone as a carrier.

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Another common problem is that the computer sees the flash drive, but does not see the files themselves on the flash drive.

The computer "does not see" microSD files

This means that the flash drive itself is detected by the computer, but some files (or even all) are not on it.

The user may immediately think that the problem is in the card itself and it needs to be restored. But things can be much simpler.

The solution to such a problem is to scan the computer for viruses, in particular, Trojans, and remove them.

Indeed, the "trojan" can make files hidden. Therefore, feel free to turn on and use your antivirus before lamenting about lost data.

It is worth saying that in some cases, the MicroSD recovery process may differ depending on the device manufacturer.

MicroSD recovery from different manufacturers

MicroSD Transcend Recovery

For MicroSD cards Transcend has its own file recovery software. It's called RecoveRx.

This program takes into account the individual characteristics of the cards of this manufacturer and is able to perform its functions much better than all of the above programs.

In addition to recovery, RecoveRx can format the card and put a password on it.

To perform a restore, you must do the following:

1. Download and run the program (here is the link). Select Recover from the top menu. In the program window, select Transcend (it may differ depending on the name of the card, by default it is as shown here).
2. Select file types.
3. Wait for the process to finish and see the list of files available for saving. Save the ones you want using the drop-down menu (the one that appears after right-clicking on a file).

Recovery MicroSD Kingston

The problem with flash drives from this manufacturer is that they mainly use Phison controllers.

And this means that the user will have to resort to low-level recovery.

Other methods may simply not work. In short, the process is as follows:

1. 1. Determine the Vendor ID and Product ID parameters so that you can then use them to find the desired utility. This can be done using the USBDeview program (link). Open the program and find desired card in the list. Click on it with the right mouse button and select the item "Html-report: selected elements". Scroll through the window that appears until we see the Vendor ID and Product ID.

1. We go to the site flashboot.ru/iflash/ and enter the necessary parameters in the appropriate fields. As a result, we will see a list of all cases where there were problems with this model. And on the right, in the UTILS section, there will be programs for low-level recovery of this model. The user needs to try them all - usually on the official sites you can find more detailed instructions by use.

MicroSD Kingmax Recovery

Kingmax also has its own software. There are two programs - one for U-Drive and PD-07 series drives, and the second for Super Stick.

You can download both programs.

Their use is extremely simple - you need to insert a USB flash drive, run the program and click on desired drive.

Sandisk microSD recovery

After that, the flash drive will work like a new one. The use of the programs is very simple.

In Formatter Silicon power in general there is only one small window with two buttons (you need to click Format there), and in SDFormatter there are more options, but it will still be enough to click on the Format button.

Smartbuy microSD recovery

Working with flash drives from this manufacturer is characterized by one interesting point - if the flash drive does not work, you can simply wait, up to several years, and after that it will work again.

If you don’t want to wait, you need to try all the recovery programs that you can find.

This application looks like a regular folder.

After selecting the media, you need to click on the Recover button at the top, wait for the process to end and see a list of files that can be recovered.

Qumo microSD recovery

MicroSDs from Qumo are notorious for the fact that they just suddenly "die". Once they stop working, and after that it will be very problematic to see at least some signs of life in them.

Some users advise using the aforementioned R-Studio and CardRecovery programs. But not in all cases they will be effective.

There are special companies that are engaged in the restoration of "dead" flash drives using hardware methods, but such services are not cheap, and it is usually cheaper to purchase a new drive.

A-Data MicroSD recovery

AT this case Most programs don't help either. Paragon Partition Manager Free works best with A-Data flash drives.

First, in this program, you need to format (Format Partition button in the main menu), and then create a new empty partition (Create new partition).

Oltramax microSD recovery

In this case, full formatting with the SD Card Formatter also helps a lot. In some cases, it is possible to restore the drive's performance using ALCOR MP.

Full instructions for its use can be read.

Recovery of damaged microSD

In some cases, when using the drive, the message “Damaged memory card” or something similar may appear on the screen.

The following programs help here:

• Smart Data Recovery - you need to select the media and click the Find button, after which it will search for all files that can somehow be recovered;

Rice. No. 14. List of files available for recovery in Recuva

• BadCopyPro - click on the Memory card on the left, then Next, Next again, wait for the process to end and see a list of the necessary files.

The same operations can be performed on an Android device. The following applications help here:

Prevention

It is better to use the flash drive correctly first, so that later there are no problems with its malfunction. Here are some tips to help avoid microSD breakdowns:

1. Do everything possible to prevent the drive from being dropped, bumped, bent, subjected to extreme temperature changes, or other influences that could damage it.
2. Avoid ionizing radiation (such is, for example, in x-ray machines).
3. Do not touch the contacts with your fingers and generally try to keep them always covered with a special cover.
4. Defragment the card from time to time and generally use it regularly - MicroSDs don't like to just lie on a shelf.
5. Try to make backups from time to time so that in case of a breakdown you don't lose all your data. To do this, you can use the "cloud" storage.
6. Do not fill the entire volume of the drive, let there always be some free space.
7. If the card is in some device, try to remove it less often.

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Almost every person who, one way or another, is connected with computers, at least once, has encountered the problem of a flash card malfunction. It can be expressed in different ways: Windows does not see the USB flash drive, refuses to format it, there are failures when copying and moving files, or the wrong amount of memory is determined.

You can restore the Kingston drive using special software

Most simple cases can be cured by simply formatting the flash drive using the operating system. Windows systems. To do this, you need to insert it into your computer and, after identifying it, go to My Computer, right-click on the drive and select Format. After successful formatting, the system will notify you about it.

If, after formatting, problems remain or it fails, for example, operating system gave an error - "Windows cannot complete formatting", then you need to try another method. For example, Kingston provides special tools for their drives to restore their performance. The program for recovering a Kingston flash drive is easily downloaded from the company's official website, in the support section. After downloading, you need to unpack and run it. In the window that opens, select the desired drive and click Format. After formatting in a special way, the flash drive should work.

Another way worth trying is to use a low-level formatter. Such a program, for example, D-Soft Flash Doctor or similar. It is not focused on any particular drive or manufacturer, so it can format any flash drives and memory cards.

If all these actions did not lead to anything, then there were serious problems with the controller.

Recovering a Kingston flash drive using firmware

You can restore a flash drive using special utility for low-level firmware of its controller. But there are situations when there really is nothing to help the device, except for physical intervention, such as soldering or connecting to special devices.

If the drive has the following viability criteria, then there is still a chance to restore it:

• Windows detects a flash drive when it is plugged into a computer port;
• after inserting the flash drive into the slot, the system automatically asks for formatting;
• the drive identifies itself, is visible in the system, when accessing it, the message "Insert disk ..." is displayed;
• systematic errors when copying or moving files to a USB flash drive;
• slow speed of the drive as a whole.

Before restoring the Kingston flash drive, you need to find out the controller identifiers. You need two of them, the first - VID, contains the manufacturer's identifier. The second one is PID, which stands for the product code. You need to determine them with a utility like Flash Drive Information Extractor. Having received them, you can write them down somewhere.

Finding a recovery utility

Directly for the firmware, you will need a special utility that can flash the flash drive controller at a low level. Such special programs are usually available only from equipment manufacturers. With the help of them, they carry out the initial firmware, repair and testing of devices. Sometimes these utilities get on the net by accident, and sometimes manufacturers share them. But the problem is that each manufacturer has its own utility, which can be different depending on the controller model and the amount of memory.

For search desired program it is for the reanimated model that SID and PID will be needed. There is one service on the net called Flashboot.ru, which stores thousands of utilities for flashing various devices and gadgets.

In the SID and PID fields, you must substitute the received numbers and click search. The service can display several program options at once. It is necessary to choose the one in the description of which the corresponding volume of the restored drive is indicated. Also, the list may contain utilities for other manufacturers. It must be remembered that it is necessary to restore the Kingston flash drive, so its most appropriate configuration is selected from the list. The Utils field describes the name of the program. After finding the desired line in the list, you need to copy the name of the utility and go to the files section of the flashboot.ru website. Paste the name you copied into the search bar and click Find.

After finding the utility, you need to download it to your computer and unpack it. Sometimes a situation arises when the desired program is not in the files. Then you can just look for her by name in any search engine.

Using the Kingston flash drive recovery software

Using the utility is the easiest part of the operation. You just need to insert a USB flash drive, run the program and click on the Start button in the program. Of course, the design, localization and method of operation of different utilities for different flash drives may be different, but the essence is the same, and it is intuitive. After successfully flashing the controller, the operating system may immediately offer to format the revived flash drive.

If nothing helped

If nothing helped or the utility was not found, then it means that, most likely, one of the drive's electrical circuit modules is physically damaged. In such a situation, only a service center can help. Specialists will be able to physically connect to the contacts of the flash drive and analyze or scan for damage. If the flash drive is repairable, then it will be repaired, if not, then nothing will help it.

In this article, you will learn about programs that can recover data on a flash drive, as well as configure settings so that there are no problems with flash drives in the future.

It is possible to fix various flash drive errors by setting up drivers, connecting a flash drive to different ports, and so on. But if this does not help, then you need to apply more effective methods and use third-party programs.

I must say right away that the use of such programs for recovering flash drives does not always solve, but exacerbates the problem. Therefore, the choice is yours. This risk is yours and yours alone.

In the flash drive repair article, we will talk about such popular flash drive manufacturers as Kingston, Adata, Silicon Power and Transcend.

Free programs for recovery and repair of flash drives

UtilityJetFlash Online Recovery forflash drivesTranscend

This utility was formerly called JetFlash Recovery Tool, now JetFlash Online Recovery. This is the official tool.

Working with this utility is quite simple: we connect a USB flash drive, run the program, and then proceed as the flash drive recovery wizard tells us.

There are two options here:

1. You can fix the flash drive and save all the data on it.
2. You can fix the flash drive and erase all the data on it.

Here, how lucky, if the first option did not help, then we move on to the second.

Download utility for free JetFlash Online Recovery

(downloads: 25494)

Utility USB Flash Drive Recovery forflash drivesSilicon power

The utility is freely available on the official website of the manufacturer. You can also download it from our website.

Silicon power

(downloads: 21273)

Flash drive Kingston and its repair

If you have a Kingston flash drive (quite common among the user), then you can use the utility from the official website of the Kingston manufacturer.

Free download utility for flash drive Kingston

(downloads: 13663)

Now let's go through the utilities and programs that are not the product of a particular manufacturer.

Program for recovering data from a flash drive D-Soft Flash Doctor

The program is free. Reviews about it are very flattering, so it can help you recover data from a flash drive.

How to determine which program is suitable for my flash drive?

It happens that a person does not know what kind of flash drive he has. Therefore, we suggest that you use a program that will determine the memory controller you are using - Chip Genius. The VID and PID parameters will be indicated there, they will be useful to you.

As a result, you will be given the search results.

In the Chip Model column, you will see what other flash drives, besides yours, use the same controller. The Utils column offers utilities for flash drive recovery. Then look for the proposed program and use it.

Downloading free programs to repair flash drives, you can restore the USB drive and restore the ability to use it for writing and reading again. In this case, you will have to sacrifice data, which then, perhaps, cannot be restored. But an alternative to using these applications is a non-working flash drive and the lack of information.

Problem Diagnosis

The main signs that a flash drive needs repair are:

• Issuing messages about protecting the USB-drive from copying or about an unidentified device;
• The impossibility of determining the drive by any computer;
• Lack of disk list;
• The impossibility of reading (and, of course, writing) information;
• Failed when trying to repair or format.

Sometimes the problem may lie in the USB connector or the lack of drivers on a particular computer. But, when problems are noted on each device, most likely the matter is in the drive. And you can try to restore it.

Utilities for flash drives

You can try to restore the functionality of the USB drive using system utilities. But, when the problem is serious, the best option is to restore through a program specifically designed for repair. Some manufacturers release their own applications that best deal with the repair of these particular brands. Although they can be used to restore a USB drive of any brand.

Advice: Special programs Designed for repair, not restoration. Extracting information using them is not recommended.

JetFlash Online Recovery

To restore non-working Transcend drives, the manufacturer has created a special utility that can be found and downloaded for free on its official website. It's called JetFlash Online Recovery and is very growing in use. There are only 2 commands here:

• Fix a flash drive by erasing all data;
• Restore with saving data.

First, you should use the second method. And, if he does not help, the first.

Silicon power

There is also a recovery program on the Silicon Power website in the support section, which you can get for free. It allows you to recover, first of all, flash drives of this brand and is called SP Recovery Tool Utility.

Adata

The manufacturer Adata on the official website also has a freely available USB recovery program. If, using USB Flash Drive Online Recovery, it was not possible to read the information, the flash drive can be repaired by losing data.

Repair flash drives Kingston

The owner of a Kingston drive will surely like the opportunity to get the whole flash drive back after running the MediaRECOVER 4.0 Digital Image Recovery program. In some cases, the application manages to save some of the data, even if the USB drive has been formatted. Recovery, unlike most of these programs, is subject not only to video, audio and photo files, but also Word documents, electronic books and tables.

Universal programs

In addition to specialized software, which repairs mainly drives of its own brand, there are several applications that can repair working condition most devices. One of them is D-Soft Flash Doctor, which provides the following benefits:

• Menu and documentation in Russian;
• Lack of localization for individual brands;
• Creating an image of a flash disk for further work not on the drive, but on its virtual copy.

The following programs, not so well known, but also free and quite effective, are:

• ChipEasy, which can not only easily restore a flash drive, but also recognize the manufacturer if its name is not written on the case or has been erased over time;
• Flash Drive Information Extractor - a utility that can provide the maximum amount of data about a flash drive along with its recovery;
• CheckUDisk is, for all its ease of use, a very fast and detailed application.

How to find a program to repair a flash drive

It is possible that, even after trying all of the above methods, it did not work out to restore the performance of your USB flash drive. In this case, you should do the following:

1. Download the Chip Genius utility;
2. Find out with its help VID and PID, as well as the name of the chipset located inside the flash drive;
3. Go to the iFlash website and enter the received 2 numbers;
4. Find your drive model in the list.

Now it remains only to find the corresponding program in the Chip Model column, paying attention to the match of the controllers. You can find and download it for free on the Internet. The principle of operation for all of them is approximately the same - more emphasis on restoring performance, less on saving data.

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Before talking about the repair of usb flash drives from the American company Kingston, it is worth mentioning a couple of significant facts about this company, which is the undisputed leader in the supply of USB drives, the second in the world in the production of flash memory and the third in memory cards.

The Californian company Kingston was founded on October 17, 1987, but even though the company is American, its origins were from Taiwan, John Tu and David Sun. Kingston Technology is currently ranked 77th in Forbes magazine's "500 Largest Private Companies in the United States" list.

A huge variety of flash drives in shape, color, body material, as well as volume, from the smallest to 1 TB. There are series of drives with data encryption that are suitable for corporate use requiring high degree protecting and encrypting information.

All Kingston USB flash drives are covered by a warranty that guarantees the exchange of a faulty device if the breakdown was not the fault of the buyer. The minimum warranty period is 1 year, there are lines of flash drives and memory cards for which the warranty is valid for up to five years. As a rule, in the first years of use there are no breakdowns. Repairs are often required after warranty service and, despite the high reliability of this company's products, no one guarantees that one day your drive will stop working.

If your storage device is no longer detected correctly, shows zero or incorrect volume, asks to insert a disk, etc., then this indicates software failure at the controller level. These and other similar malfunctions are subject to repair. There are several repair programs Kingston flash drives, not counting the universal utilities. Let's look at a few of them so you know how to work with them. Download the archive from the link, which contains all three utilities.

Phison Preformat v.1.30

The program helps to recover flash drives on Phison controllers, which are also used by Kingston. Run it with the preformat.exe file, if it gives the message: Preformat does not support this IC, then the controller is not supported. If the program starts, a window will open, as in the image below, where you are given four options: full format, quick, quick low-level and full low-level.

Instructions for use are not needed. Select modes one by one and check the drive. Remember that after a quick and complete low-level format, it will be impossible to recover the information that was stored on it, so take care of this in advance.

Another very simple utility that can help fix errors. Everything is simple, if it starts, then the device is assembled on a controller compatible with it. There are only two buttons: Format and Cancel. First produced low-level formatting, which helps to fix the device in case of logical failures, and the second to close the utility.

A production utility that has managed to bring many flash drives back to life. The instructions are simple: run the AlcorMP.exe file, if your drive is found in Device Status, then click Start and check if it works.

With these three programs for repairing flash drives from the manufacturer Kingston, you can “cure” most of the devices. If the universal utilities for diagnostics and recovery provided on the site.