subject: Recovering Data From An Ntfs-based Usb Drive [print this page] Most of you must be aware of the file systems that are used in Windows systems. They are either FAT or NTFS file systems. Of these two, the NTFS file system is preferred more than FAT these days as it is more secure, provides file encryption, allows file compression, etc. That is the reason it is the standard file system for the Windows systems. However, sometimes these systems get corrupt due to various reasons such as virus infections, corrupt file systems, human errors, abrupt system shutdown, etc. In such cases, you should use a third-party NTFS data recovery software to recover the trapped data from the system.
Consider a scenario wherein you have a USB drive in which you have created an NTFS system partition. One day, when you try to access the USB drive, you are unable to do so. An error message is displayed, that is:
The volume X: is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
Cause:
The root cause for this error message is that the file system in the system drive has damaged. The drive has a RAW file system, as is mentioned in the error message.
The RAW file system is a system provided file system driver. It supports all disk and tape media, that is why it is called at the last instance, when file system support is required by I/O manager to mount a volume.
When file system corruption occurs, the files become RAW and cannot be recognized by Windows. Thus, it can not locate the stored data or access it. This makes the drive corrupted and you will have to perform look for methods to recover the data.
Resolution:
To resolve this situation, you should use a third-party NTFS partition recovery software that can enables you to recover the trapped data in the USB drive. Such NTFS file recovery tools are read-only in nature that do not overwrite the original data by using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.
Windows Data Recovery is an NTFS partition recovery software that enables you to recover lost, deleted, or formatted data from NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. It is capable of recovering more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard disks, external hard drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, etc. This NTFS data recovery tool is capable of updating the latest definitions over the Internet. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000.
