Unfortunate and unexpected events can happen to anyone at any time. Your USB drive is no exception. For instance, you want to transfer files from a USB drive but you abruptly remove the drive in a hurry. Thus, the files may not be transferred completely and lead to loss or corruption. Likewise, there are several scenarios that might lead to the loss of music files from USB drives. In this article, we will discuss how to get back the music files from an USB flash drive.
If you accidentally delete music files, usually these files end up in the Recycle Bin, to access the hidden files search for the path in the File Explorer.
- On FAT file systems, it’s \RECYCLED.
- On NTFS file systems, it’s \RECYCLER (excluding Windows Vista).
- On NTFS file systems on Windows Vista, it’s \$RECYCLE.BIN.
In case you did not find the files in the Recycle Bin, then there are chances that your music files are permanently deleted. You can get back your permanently deleted .mp3 files by following the below methods.
Method 1: Recover Permanently Deleted Music files from Previous Version
Previous version is a feature in Windows that helps you to take a backup of your files. This method works only if you have taken the backup of your important files.
- Make sure your USB drive is connected to the computer.
- Click on This PC, under that Right click on your USB drive, select Properties.
- Click on Previous Versions Tab, click on the available version of the files and hit Restore.
In case you were not able to recover music files using the Previous Version method then move to the next section of the article.
Method 2: Recover Music Files from USB Flash Drive using Remo Recover
Remo Recover is a powerful tool with Deep scan algorithm that can recover music files from USB flash drives. The tool can recover more than 500 file types like audios, videos, images, Office files. Remo supports recovery of files from the drive formatted with NTFS, HFS, HFS+, NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, etc.
Steps to Recover Music files from Pen Drive
Step 1: Download, install and run Remo Recover software.
Step 2: Connect the USB drive from where you wish to recover the music files and click on Scan.
Note: If you are unable to find the drive, click on the Can’t Find Drive option.
Step 3: The software starts scanning your drive. Make use of Dynamic Recovery View to have a look at the recovered files.
Step 4: After the completion of scanning, the tool will display all the recovered files.
Step 5:Click on the Filter option, which lets you sort files based on file type and file formats.
Step 6: You can use the preview option to have a quick look at the recovered files. Just double click on any files that you want to preview.
Step 7: If you are satisfied with the recovery results, select the files that you want to recover and hit Recover. The tool will give you the list of locations where you can save the recovered files. Select any folder or device and hit the OK button to start the data saving process.
Other Scenarios Which Leads to Loss of Music Files from USB
- Removing USB drive improperly from the computer may result in corrupted USB drive due to which it becomes inaccessible and leaves you in data loss situation.
- Music file loss from USB drive may also occur when you deleted important files instead of unwanted ones.
- The Error message which asks you to format the USB drive is also one of the reasons for loss of songs from it.
- If your USB drive is corrupted with malware.
- Downloading the music files from unreliable websites.
What More can Remo Recover do:
- It recovers files from pen drives, memory card, internal drive, etc.
- Helps to recover files from various file systems, such as FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, exFAT, HFS+, HFSX in simple steps.
- Even recovers data from deleted and formatted RAID0, RAID1, RAID5 arrays.
- Even, the tool recovers songs from damaged iPod in no time.
- Retrieves RAW images of different format that are deleted or lost from camera or camcorder of various brands.
- Even, creates disk images to bypass bad sectors from which you can later recover your data.
Conclusion:
Here we end our discussion on music recovery from usb drive where we have answered the question how to recover music files that were deleted or lost from various portable storage devices such as USB drives, Pendrive, memory cards, sd cards, MicroSD cards, etc. in case you are facing any difficulty with our product. You can contact our support team.
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