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I removed my SanDisk 16GB USB drive without ejecting it first. Now file properties says it has 0 files, 0 bytes. How can I recover my files?

I have a 16GB SanDisk USB drive, that was inserted into my Windows 10 computer.

I was editing several documents, then closed them.

Without thinking, I removed the USB drive without ejecting it.

Then I inserted the USB drive back into the computer.

The computer recognizes the drive as removable disk E:

When I right click properties, it says 0 files, 0 bytes.

Is there a way I can recover my documents?

Wayne Barron

I have to say, that is the first time I have ever heard of that happened.
I hardly ever eject my USB drives, I just remove them.

Have a look here and see if this program will assist you.
https://www.howtogeek.com/187104/warning-anyone-can-recover-deleted-files-from-your-usb-drives-and-external-ssds/

arnold

Use recovery tools such as getdatbacknt see how it sets the partition, when inserted did you get a prompt to initialize and you accepted?

Look at test-disk they have removable data recovery.

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eemmpph

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Wayne: I went to the website and it's a good article for recovering data using TRIM (which is for hard disk drives, but not USB drives).
Arnold: I googled getdatbacknt and there were many results to choose from.
Nobus: I went to the website http://www.runtime.org/ and found the exact solution for my situation: GetDataBack Pro V5.50.

Thank you very much for your help!

nobus

you're welcome !

arnold

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