After a viral attack, power failure or formatting, the operating system has ceased to determine the Flash drive ... familiar situation? What to do? Throw away the device in the trash bin and run to the store for the new one? No need to hurry. There are software solutions for restoring non-working flash drives. Most of these programs are well coped with this task. This list presents those of them that most effectively help solve the problem.
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
A small utility with a set of functions to restore non-working Flash drives. It is distinguished by a simple and understandable interface that even without the support of the Russian language makes it one of the best tools for working with flash drives. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool scans Flash drives, corrects errors and format in different file systems.
Lesson: How to restore a USB flash drive with HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
HDD Low Level Format Tool
Another small, but a powerful flash drive program. With low-level formatting, it is capable of returning non-working drives to life. Provides full information about the drive and S.R.A.R.T data for HDD. Formats both quickly, with a strengthening of MBR only, and deeply, with the deletion of all data. Unlike the previous representative, it is able to work not only with flash drives, but also with hard drives.
SD Formatter.
SD Formatter is a program for recovering memory cards that can restore SDHC, MicroSD and SDXC drives. Everything else is able to treat memory cards after unsuccessful formatting, as well as fully shed information by repeated rewriting random data.
Flash Doctor.
Flash Doctor is a program to restore the TRANSCEND flash drive. Scans discs for errors and restores with low-level formatting. It works not only with Flash drives, but also with hard drives. A distinctive feature of Flash Doctor is the function of creating disk images. The resulting images, in turn, can be recorded on the flash drives.
Ezrecover
The simplest program to restore the Kingston flash drive in our list. But her simplicity is only an external one. In fact, Ezrecover is able to consider not defined in the flash drives and restore them. Ezrecover returns to the life of Flash drives with the "Security Device" label and (or) zero volume. With all the seeming unbelief, it copes perfectly with its tasks.
Here is a list of programs to restore flash drives. Each has its own characteristics, but they all do their job perfectly. It is difficult to recommend some particular one. Not always Flash Doctor will cope where Ezrecover will not cope, so you need to have a set of such programs in arsenal.