USB DATA RECOVERY

USB Data Recovery Advice

We recommend in all cases of data loss to leave your USB flash drive unplugged. This will prevent further damage. Sometimes data loss can be distressing. You can call our super friendly hotline for advice on 1300 001 211. We will be able to provide you with reassuring advice on what to do next.

Avoid unqualified friends, family members or internet experiments. Most of the these people have good intentions to help you but their unqualified advice usually leads to further damage.

Avoid internet apps, Windows checkdisk or Mac first aid disk check. These apps are not sophisticated enough to deal with faulty drives and can cause data rearrangement that can risk permanent data loss or make a data recovery job more expensive than it needed to be.

How to recover data from failed a failed USB

Our data recovery lab will diagnose the problem with your USB stick first. We provide a FREE test & quote. Our pricing is the lowest price guaranteed. As Australia's leading data recovery service we will then have an action plan to get your files back.

The 5 Most Common Causes of USB Flash Drive Failure

1. USB is not detected

A USB flash disk that has malfunctioned will not detect in any computer. Sometimes it may still make a chime sound or freeze your computer.  Data recovery is possible.

2. Computer fails to start up

A malfunctioning hard drive can prevent your computer, laptop or server from booting up. Symptoms range from errors about the start up drive missing, freezing on the Windows or Apple logo or slow and unresponsive. Data recovery 

3. Accidentally dropped portable drive

Dropping a drive can cause internal damage. Known as a head crash in the data recovery industry common symptoms are drive that make clicking sounds, buzzing sounds or no longer become readable. We have world class tools to recover data from these problems in a clean room.

4. Accidentally deleted files or folders

When data is deleted computers remove the indexing to the files so that the hard drive space becomes available for new data. Zero Alpha can find these files giving you a high success rate for deleted file data recovery.

5. Corruption

Corruption can occur when a read-write cycle is interrupted. Common corruption problems can cause boot sector damage, partition table damage or even file and folder loss. The success rate for corrupted data recovery is high.

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