Data Loss on Thumb Drive
Hi Experts,
I am having a PEN Drive (Kingston Data Traveller G3 - 16GB). In the morning I was using the PEN Drive on one of my PC's and it was working fine. Then I Shut down the system and plugged my PEN drive on to another system. And it gave the message like that "The disk is not formatted. You need to format it now". When all other methods failed, I formatted the drive and from then onwards its size has been changed to mere 8MB. I have no clue how that happened and need to get the data back.
The drive had a hidden 2GB volume encrypted with the help of TrueCrypt algorithm which could be mounted using only a password.
Regards
Kanwaljit
I am having a PEN Drive (Kingston Data Traveller G3 - 16GB). In the morning I was using the PEN Drive on one of my PC's and it was working fine. Then I Shut down the system and plugged my PEN drive on to another system. And it gave the message like that "The disk is not formatted. You need to format it now". When all other methods failed, I formatted the drive and from then onwards its size has been changed to mere 8MB. I have no clue how that happened and need to get the data back.
The drive had a hidden 2GB volume encrypted with the help of TrueCrypt algorithm which could be mounted using only a password.
Regards
Kanwaljit
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I have tried as you guided above. Following is a screenshot attached. My drive is listed as Drive I
Disk-Mgt.png
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use paragon partition manager
www.partition-manager.com
It will show all hidden partitions
then Format it in NTFS
www.partition-manager.com
It will show all hidden partitions
then Format it in NTFS
If you format it in NTFS, you will lose your data if it is not already loss. This is just a warning, otherwise shahzoor's comment will likely recover your storage space.
My drive is showing incorrect size. Is that a hindrance to successful recovery ?
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There are lot of versions available, which one I need to download.
You need a personal edition
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-personal/
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-personal/
Operation Format Partition is not available in Demo version.
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Hi Experts,
I was not able to recover the partition or data, as the partition could not be resized. But I think that was the only solution.
Thanks a lot :)
I was not able to recover the partition or data, as the partition could not be resized. But I think that was the only solution.
Thanks a lot :)
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