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How to recover a USB flash drive

does anybody know a good free application for recovering files from usb flash drives? Windows asks to format the USB flash drive, but I'm sure the files are still there. Thanks

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Probably the best (free) solution: http://www.piriform.com/recuva

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PhotoRec can get files off the system but I'm not sure it'll work on Windows, if Windows can't mount the drive. I could be wrong on this point; I haven't used it on Windows.

For Linux--if the system recognizes your drive in some manner, you can have Photorec work on the root device (e.g., /dev/sdb) not the partitions (e.g., /dev/sdb1)

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