Data is always precious, whether a single document, presentation, or a group of birthday shots. With the introduction of USB thumb drives, transferring data from one device to another is simple. But what happens if you were to format your thumb drive accidentally? Here is how to recover data from formatted USB flash drives. All of your precious data stored on this USB drive becomes lost. Now, the problem becomes severe. If you don’t have a backup of all your data that’s stored on the USB flash drive, you’re in trouble. If you find yourself is such a situation, the first question that comes to mind would be “Is it possible to recover data from formatted USB thumb drives or …

Memory storage cards are something just about all of us buy. Whether we need extra memory storage on our mobile devices or for our digital camera, SD cards are the way to go. But did you know that these highly compact and efficient flash storage cards are available in three different types? In fact, each type caters to the needs of the user. Type 1: The SD Card. You know what’s great about classics? They’re original. There is something to be said for that very first, original creation. The SD card was the very first storage card. It was created in 1999 with a maximum storage capacity of 2GB, which was huge back then. It used Microsoft’s FAT-12 or FAT-16 …

Losing data can be devastating. Whether you lose an essay due within the next hour, or an important presentation vanishes, you can find yourself in trouble with no clear solution. Data loss happens to the best of us. Maybe you’re lucky enough to have handwritten notes (or even a full first-draft scribbled down on paper) to draw on, but chances are, you’ve worked directly on your word processing software with no backups. So, what can you do to avoid data loss in future? Prevention is better than cure. Here’s four tips for preventative measures in data Loss. Data Loss, avoid saving documents on your OS’s drive. We all do this – whenever we work on a document in our word …

Recover Corrupted Flash Drive. Cloud storage is a huge option today. But what if you need to recover corrupted flash drive data? Flash drives continue to play a vital role in day-to-day business. In addition, these are cost-effective and convenient to store & carry.  Furthermore, many come with varying capacities. Flash drives are useful to have around the office. There are various types of USB flash drives available on the market. In short, we use USB sticks and SD memory cards within digital cameras and tablets. Flash drive files corrupted? We can recover a corrupted USB drive, as well as physically broken USB sticks. Let’s discuss what methods and best practices can be applied. How to Recover Files from Corrupted …

Your solid state drive craving eyes are not deceiving you. Learn more about this data storage technology. eProvided Flash Drive Data Recovery Discusses Solid State Drive Technology, and PCIe.  Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is an interface standard for a computer’s architecture. Every motherboard has several PCIe slots available for adding GPUs, and add-on cards. Depending on which motherboard you buy, will determine if these slots are available. With that said, a PCIe connection operates like a system. PCIe Lanes Explained There are 5 slots connections within a PCIe. PCIe slot configurations come in x1, x4, x8, x16, and x32. Each number after the x describes how many lanes that slot has. A x1 slot carries one bit per cycle …

Flash drives are common today. eProvided encrypted flash drive data recovery makes file retrieval easy. Technical expertise isn’t necessary to use data on a flash drive. Some USB drives become encrypted, some don’t. Basically, a user can encrypt their data before storing it in the flash drive.  Other forms of encryption are drives with on-board encryption software. This helps with security and privacy issues. Suppose, you store documents on your flash drive. They contain all usernames and passwords for your financial records. Files such as credit cards remains saved to this USB drive. Encrypted Flash Drive Data Recovery & Password Protection. Thus, how bad would it be if your flash drive falls into the wrong hands? Therefore, to avoid this …

About eProvided’s USB flash drive recovery and USB features, when things go south. Everyone has a clear choice between quality and speed on a USB drive. Which USB feature would you choose? In most cases, you would say quality. In addition, at the end of the day, high quality is worth every penny. Slow file transfer speeds result in sloppiness, data loss and corrupted USB drives. In addition, what if speed depended on quality as much as quality depended on speed? Speed affects the quality in using USB flash drives. Some USB features are fast, while others are slow. The markings on these storage devices rarely tell you which is which. Therefore, buyers are at a disadvantage. They will not …

Data recovery is the method by which raw data is moved from an unreadable device to a secondary storage medium in order to retain the fidelity of the data so that it can be used again. It is usually needed when a particular storage device fails in operation and the data on the device is needed to perform mandatory tasks. Data recovery can be done on discs that have met with an untimely demise via software or hardware failure. However, it cannot be done on drives that have been physically damaged beyond a certain point. Most data recovery is done on devices that are impossible to access or have minor damage in their input/output process. Many software companies provide end-user …

NAND technology has had a huge impact on many of the gadget-based luxuries we enjoy today. By creating breakthroughs in storage methods, NAND flash has revolutionized our phones and our digital cameras; maximizing the amount of space we have available to store a range of media. There have been various types of NAND technology over the years, allowing us to reach the point we’re at today (and it will only keep improving – just imagine the amount of pictures, videos, and more you’ll be able to store on your phones and tablets five years from now). The first, SLC (Single Level Cell) was designed to store one data bit in each cell; this graduated to MLC (Multi-Level Cell) technology, which …

Sandisk Flash Drive Data Recovery We’ve all heard of Sandisk for their range of USB Flash Drives, Compact Flash Cards and SD products. Sandisk was one of the pioneers of the Solid State Drive (SSD) market when they released their first device, the U5000, in 2007. But they soon decided to abandon the SSD market. Now, they’re back with a bang, having launched their brand new “Ultra” series of solid state drives and the “Extreme” series of SSD’s in 2011 and 2012, respectively. One of the newest SanDisk drives is the 1TB Extreme PRO USB 3.2 SSD. Some sites are offering it for $116.99 shipped. The 1TB Extreme PRO USB 3.2 SSD by SanDisk is one of the latest offerings …

SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory cards are becoming popular because of their smaller size and larger data storage capacity. We mainly use SDHC camera cards in cameras, computers, mp3 players and video game platforms. They’re handy for storing large amounts of data in a digital media environment. Many SDHC cards are used by professional photographers in digital cameras due to their somewhat good reliability and low cost. Troubleshooting SDHC Camera Cards 2024. Even though SD & SDHC Cards are extremely durable; like any other electronic/digital storage device, SDHC cards can also be prone to failure. Be aware, there are basic troubleshooting techniques. And, they can fix the problem with your memory device. Tackle it alone, make your memory card …

We all need space. Memory storage for our data is a constantly growing need. As data files become capable of storing greater details, they grow in size. And as data gets bigger, our need for higher capacity memory gets larger. It’s no surprise that consumers are seeing greater flash memory storage options. Need greater storage? Storage device manufacturers are delivering. One of the greatest complaints among cell phone and smartphone device users is total storage space. Between high quality photos, high definition 4K videos, and applications, we cannot live without space. That is, internal flash memory’s used up before we’re able to upgrade our storage drives. And so, what’s the solution? Memory card add-on devices, such as SD and microSD …

In the recent past, optical media has embraced the use of CD’s and DVD’s as a means of storing data. CD’s or DVD’s are optical media developed to store information for an unspecified period of time but keep data safe so it can be readable in the future. CD and DVD burners have advanced by leaps and bounds from their original classification. There were times not twenty years ago where burning a CD was not possible above 1x speed, requiring about forty-five minutes to be expended to create a single disc. Speed has increased to the point where burners now get up to 52x in speed, allowing a CD or DVD to be burned in mere minutes. The downside of …

We have a tendency to break and damage our belongings. In the case of thumb drives and flash drives, we have a habit of saving all our images and data onto them. We truly save everything these days. As thumb drives become less costly and store huge amounts of data, we forget the consequences of damage. Recovering lost data from our flash drives is no laughing matter. So what tends to go wrong with a flash drive? Recovering Thumb Drive Photos & Data for the Faint at Heart In this story, we will go in exact order of the most recent cases that have come into eProvided. We will discuss only those cases that relate to lost files or damaged …