How to recover a Pen drive from Read Error

Here I would like to share my some of experience. Some days before I faced a problem with ma Pen drive. I copied 4 word documents which contained images and were little Larger in capacity. Say about 2 to 4 MB in capacity. Actually it is not my Pen Drive. I borrowed it from one of ma friend. It was 2 GB in capacity and Kingston in Brand.

All files ware copied smoothly. No errors were found. Everything was fine until I took it to the office. When I tried to get the documents back to ma office PC, then I came up with an error message. “Cannot read from source disk” at the middle of file copy process. Mmh! That is the problem. I stoped there. And think.. think.. think… Finally I got an idea. Lets see weather it worked for me or not.

First, I scanned the drive using Scan Disk. Here is how I did it.
Go to my Computer. Then right click the Pen Drive icon. In menu that appear select Properties.

Then the property dialogue box will appear. There select tools TAB and press Button.

And in next dialogue select the two check boxes. And press start.

This will completely check the drive and attempts to recover any data that is located on a damaged (Bad sector) area of the Drive.

This is what I did. Yap! It was successful to me.

But in some occasions even this wont work. That is because of Disk Error. If there is a disk damage or bad sector this would happen. In those occasions we can get only the datas which are on non bad sector areas. If it happen, we must secure those areas without any files would be copied again to those areas for our future safety.

I stop here today. It is getting dark in my Friday evening. I’ll discuss how to recover the bad sectored or damaged Pen Drive on next weak or before when I have fresh time.