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Help! Corrupted USB Drive...

Sep 5, 2009 9:31AM PDT

I have a PNY 16GB USB flash drive that has corrupted and I can't even view or enter the drive folder to retrieve the pictures (and maybe files) that I have on it with reformatting the USB drive. Because my understanding of reformatting the USB drive is that it will wipe everything that is on it. So is their anyway to retrieve these files off of it???

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Brandon

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Sep 5, 2009 11:16AM PDT
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Thanks!!!
Sep 5, 2009 1:09PM PDT

I found that Recuva worked but only after I reformatted the USB drive.

But anyway thanks for all of your help
Brandon