How to flash a flash drive? Restoring the USB drive. Programs for recovery of flash drives Jetflash transcend 16gb usb device recovery
Transcend removable storage devices are used by a very large number of users around the world. It’s not surprising, because these flash drives are very inexpensive and last quite a long time. But sometimes some kind of misfortune happens to them - information is lost due to damage to the drive.
This can happen for various reasons. Some flash drives fail because someone dropped them, others simply because they are old. In any case, every user who has a Transcend removable drive should know how to recover data on it if it has been lost.
There are proprietary utilities that allow you to very quickly recover data from Transcend USB drives. But there are also programs that are designed for all flash drives, but they work especially well with Transcend products. In addition, the standard Windows data recovery method often helps when working with flash drives from this company.
Method 1: RecoverRx
This utility allows you to recover data from flash drives and protect them with a password. It also allows you to format drives from Transcend. Suitable for absolutely all removable media from Transcend and is proprietary software for this product. To use RecoveRx for data recovery, follow these steps:
Method 2: JetFlash Online Recovery
This is another proprietary utility from Transcend. Its use looks extremely simple.
Method 3: JetDrive Toolbox
It’s interesting that the developers position this tool as software for Apple computers, but it also works very well on Windows. To perform a restore using JetDrive Toolbox, follow these steps:
JetDrive Toolbox actually works exactly the same as RecoveRx. The difference is that there are many more tools.
Method 4: Transcend Autoformat
If none of the above-mentioned standard recovery utilities help, you can use Transcend Autoformat. True, in this case the flash drive will be immediately formatted, that is, there will be no chance of extracting any data from it. But it will be restored and ready for work.
Using Transcend Autoformat is extremely easy.
- and run it.
- At the top, select the letter of your storage medium. Below, indicate its type - SD, MMC or CF (just check the box next to the desired type).
- Click on the button Format" to begin the formatting process.
Method 5: D-Soft Flash Doctor
This program is famous for running at a low level. Judging by user reviews, it is very effective for Transcend flash drives. Repairing removable media using D-Soft Flash Doctor is done as follows:
If repairs using all the above methods do not help restore the media, you can use the standard Windows recovery tool.
Method 6: Windows Recovery Tool
Judging by the reviews, these 6 methods are the most optimal in the case of a damaged Transcend flash drive. Less efficient in this case is the EzRecover program. How to use it, read the review on our website. You can also use D-Soft Flash Doctor and JetFlash Recovery Tool. If none of these methods help, your best bet is to simply buy a new removable storage device and use it.
I had a little trouble. A 32 GB flash drive from transcend has stopped working. That is, the operating system does not see it. And it’s not that there was very valuable information there, but because of the large volume, it became a pity to throw away the flash drive “without a fight.”
Using the standard JetFlash Recovery Tool, it was not possible to revive the device. I had to look for another way. After a little googling on the topic of how to restore a flash drive, I found an online service for flashing the firmware directly from the manufacturer.
For obvious reasons, the service only supports devices manufactured by Transcend. If it happens to your flash drive that it refuses to be detected in the system or some other malfunction occurs. Don’t rush to throw it away, but try to restore it using an online recovery service.
It was with his help that I managed to restore the functionality of my flash drive.
For greater clarity, I recorded a video on how to restore a flash drive using the transcend service:
To use the transcend flash drive recovery service, you need to go to the website by entering the following address in the address bar of your browser: http://ru.transcend-info.com/support/DlCenter/DLSoftware.asp?SID=3
So, go to the service page. Select the type of your device.
To download the program you will need to register.
You will be prompted to download the OnlineRecovery program. It should be noted here that administrator rights are required for the program to work! Therefore, you need to run the utility as an administrator.
After starting the program, you need to select the size of the drive to be restored. In my case it’s 4 gigabytes, and click “OK”
While the program is running, do not disconnect the Internet connection!
After the program checks the flash drive, you will be prompted to restore the device without saving data, or you can try to restore the information.
We press start.
That's all. We wait for the process to complete, then remove the flash drive and check its functionality.
In this article, I wrote how to restore a transcend flash drive using the manufacturer’s standard service.
Thus, I managed to recover two flash drives of 32 and 4 gigabytes. I hope this method will help you too. Good luck.
Various problems with USB drives or flash drives are something that probably every owner faces. The computer does not see the flash drive, files are not deleted or written, Windows writes that the disk is write-protected, the amount of memory is displayed incorrectly - this is not a complete list of such problems. Perhaps, if the computer simply does not detect the drive, this guide will also help you: (3 ways to solve the problem). If the flash drive is detected and works, but you need to restore files from it, first I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the material.
If various ways to fix USB drive errors by manipulating drivers, actions in Windows Disk Management or using the command line (diskpart, format, etc.) did not lead to a positive result, you can try utilities and programs for repairing flash drives provided by both manufacturers , for example, Kingston, Silicon Power and Transcend, and third-party developers.
On the official website of Silicon Power, in the “Support” section, a program for repairing flash drives from this manufacturer is presented - USB Flash Drive Recovery. To download, you will need to enter your email address (not verified), then the UFD_Recover_Tool ZIP archive is downloaded, which contains the SP Recovery Utility (requires .NET Framework 3.5 components for operation, will download automatically if necessary).
Similar to the previous program, SP Flash Drive Recovery requires an Internet connection to work and restoration of work occurs in several stages - determining the parameters of the USB drive, downloading and unpacking a suitable utility for it, then automatically performing the necessary actions.
You can download the program for repairing flash drives Silicon Power SP Flash Drive Recovery Software for free from the official website http://www.silicon-power.com/web/download-USBrecovery
If you are the owner of a Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 drive, then on the official Kingston website you can find a utility for repairing this line of flash drives, which will help format the drive and bring it to the condition it had when purchased.
You can download Kingston Format Utility for free from https://www.kingston.com/ru/support/technical/downloads/111247
ADATA USB Flash Drive Online Recovery
The manufacturer Adata also has its own utility that will help fix flash drive errors if you cannot read the contents of the flash drive, Windows reports that the disk is not formatted, or you see other errors related to the drive. To download the program, you will need to enter the serial number of the flash drive (so that exactly what is required is downloaded) as in the screenshot below.
After downloading, run the downloaded utility and follow a few simple steps to restore the operation of the USB device.
Official page where you can download ADATA USB Flash Drive Online Recovery and read about using the program - http://www.adata.com/ru/ss/usbdiy/
Apacer Repair Utility, Apacer Flash Drive Repair Tool
Several programs are available for Apacer flash drives - different versions of Apacer Repair Utility (which, however, cannot be found on the official website), as well as Apacer Flash Drive Repair Tool, available for download on the official pages of some of the Apacer flash drives (look specifically on the official website your USB drive model and look at the downloads section at the bottom of the page).
Apparently, the program performs one of two actions - simple formatting of the drive (Format item) or low-level formatting (Restore item).
Formatter Silicon Power
Formatter Silicon Power is a free utility for low-level formatting of flash drives, which, according to reviews (including in the comments to the current article), works for many other drives (but use it at your own peril and risk), allowing you to restore their functionality when no other methods don't help.
The utility is no longer available on the official SP website, so you will have to use Google to download it (I do not provide links to unofficial locations within this site) and do not forget to check the downloaded file, for example, on VirusTotal before launching it.
SD Memory Card Formatter for repairing and formatting SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards (including Micro SD)
The SD Memory Card Manufacturers Association offers its own universal utility for formatting the corresponding memory cards if problems arise with them. Moreover, judging by the available information, it is compatible with almost all such drives.
The program itself is available in versions for Windows (Windows 10 is also supported) and MacOS and is quite easy to use (but you will need a card reader).
You can download SD Memory Card Formatter from the official website https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/
D-Soft Flash Doctor program
The free D-Soft Flash Doctor program is not tied to any specific manufacturer and, judging by reviews, can help fix problems with a flash drive through low-level formatting.
In addition, the program allows you to create an image of a flash drive for subsequent work not on a physical drive (to avoid further malfunctions) - this can be useful if you need to get data from a Flash drive. Unfortunately, the official website of the utility could not be found, but it is available on many resources with free programs.
How to find a program to repair a flash drive
In fact, there are much more such free utilities for repairing flash drives than are listed here: I tried to take into account only relatively “universal” tools for USB drives from different manufacturers.
It is quite possible that none of the above utilities are suitable for restoring the functionality of your USB drive. In this case, you can use the following steps to find the program you need.
Additionally: if all the described methods for repairing a USB drive did not help, try.
Until recently, we stored music, videos and electronic documents on CDs or floppy disks. However, these media gradually disappeared, replaced by a much more compact and capacious flash drive, USB or simply a flash drive. It serves as a fairly reliable “storage” for any information, but even a USB drive
sometimes it breaks. What to do if the flash drive does not boot or is not recognized in the system? You can throw away an unusable drive and buy a new one if there is nothing important left on it. But sometimes a thesis or the only copy of an important document remains there, and it has to be restored. Transcend is no different from the same “operation” with any other brand of drive.
So, let's consider a situation in which the flash drive freezes during the recording process and is not detected when it is reconnected. At the same time, USB appeared in the list of devices, but the disk manager did not show its icon. These symptoms indicate a controller failure. Any drives, including Transcend flash drives, are based on a control chip or controller. Various failures or power problems block the controller, and inaccessible sectors appear on the USB. If the flash drive
stuck due to a system failure, you should do the following:
- Determine the name and manufacturer of the controller.
- Find a utility developed by this company.
- Switch the control chip into test mode and restore.
Let's start restoring the Transcend flash drive by disassembling it into parts - this is the easiest way to find out the manufacturer of the chip. The USB drive is easy to disassemble; just bend the edge of the sticker on its body, press the latch with a thin object, which is hidden under the sticker, and carefully pull the connector. The controller is essentially a printed circuit board. On one side there is a chip, and on the other there is a memory chip. Both sides contain the data necessary for recovery.
Having decided on the controller manufacturer, we will continue restoring the Transcend flash drive. The next step is to search for a utility from the manufacturer. It must support the controller with this number. You can download the service utility from a resource that distributes free software. If no application on the flash drive is "view
it”, it should be switched to testing mode. Which contacts need to be closed for this are indicated in the drive documentation. Having found a suitable program, you should install the factory driver that came with it. You can find it in the folder with the installed utility.
Now the actual recovery of the Transcend flash drive begins. First, let's download the utility and start searching for the drive. After waiting for it to be displayed in the program, press the “Start” button, thereby starting diagnostics and formatting of the drive. It should be remembered that all data recorded on the flash drive will be erased. To restore the maximum capacity of a flash drive, it is worth formatting it twice. After the message about the successful completion of the “operation”, disable the factory driver, return the flash drive to normal operating mode and reboot it.
I hope that my story about how to recover data on a flash drive will come in handy more than once in a hopeless situation.
to restore the functionality of self-produced flash drives (A-DATA, Transcend and JetFlash), the file system of which has been damaged. The functionality of the media is restored by completely formatting it. The utility also scans the drive for the presence of non-working (bad) sectors and marks them as such so that the controller no longer accesses these sectors while recording information.
JetFlash Recovery Tool destroys all data on the media during scanning.
However, if the memory block is damaged or the flash drive fails, the utility will not be able to restore it. Before performing any manipulations with the flash drive using the JetFlash Recovery Tool, make an image (an exact copy) of the file system of your drive, if possible. Information can be recovered and safely retrieved from it. One of the distinctive features of the JetFlash Recovery Tool utility is its low system requirements:
- Processor with a clock frequency of 800 MHz.
- RAM from 256 MB.
- Free hard disk space from 7 MB.
- 32-bit or 64-bit architecture (x86 or x64).
- Operating system Windows XP and newer versions.
As you can see, the utility will work on any modern computer. The universal utility JetFlash Recovery Tool has a number of useful features:
- supports JetFlash, Transcend and A-DATA flash drives;
- supports the most common file systems: Ext4, XFS, ReiserFS, FAT32 and NTFS;
- recovers flash drives that the PC is unable to detect;
- restores the working condition of flash drives that are not working correctly;
- restore information if the media is partially damaged;
- Supports card readers and removable hard drives that are connected via USB.
You can download JetFlash Recovery Tool for free from the developer’s official website using this link. The program works in several steps and is as follows. We launch the application after connecting a USB drive that is not detected or is identified as an unknown device, and click “Start” to carry out the procedure for identifying it.
We wait for the drive to scan, which is completed in a matter of seconds.
Your USB drive will be displayed in the window that appears. If you are ready to say goodbye to all your data or spend a lot of time restoring them if the flash drive is successfully resuscitated, click “Start” to start the procedure for restoring the logical structure of the USB drive.
The program will display a message stating that during scanning all data on the drive will be lost. If you agree, click “Ok” and wait for the drive recovery process to complete.
Do not interrupt the program under any circumstances (removing the flash drive, turning off the computer, interrupting the utility are contraindicated), as you can lose the flash drive and all its contents forever.
After a few minutes, the application will display a message indicating that the drive has been restored. Click “Ok”. We disconnect the flash drive and then connect it again to check its functionality. The device will work properly if the JetFlash Recovery Tool has coped with its task perfectly. How could there be a slight loss of useful memory, depending on the number of damaged sectors? This happens due to the decommissioning of some damaged sectors. Sometimes after completing the first step (starting scanning your computer for removable USB drives), a dialog box appears with a message stating that the utility was unable to detect your USB device. This means that your flash drive was made by a company other than Transcend, and the utility does not work with third-party drives.
Close the dialog box and select another program to restore the flash drive.