How to Fix Corrupted USB Flash Drive and Recover Data?

There are many situations when USB drives may stop working due to unexpected errors. In this situation, you won’t be able to access the USB drive or retrieve its content at all. In general, there are two types of USB drive corruption, i.e., logical and physical corruption.

Logical corruption basically means that the USB drive has bad sectors, contains malware, or has an incorrect file system. Physical corruption means that the USB drive has experienced some sort of physical damage. Fixing a corrupted USB drive with a logical error is much easier than a USB drive that has experienced physical damage. If you need to find corrupted USB flash drive repair solutions, you can follow the solutions in the video to fix corrupted USB flash drive and recover your data.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:18 Solution 1: Check and Fix the Error on the Damaged USB Drive via Windows Utility
2:31 Solution 2: Fix Corrupted File System Error on USB via CHKDSK CMD
3:21 Solution 3: Repair USB drive by reinstalling the driver
4:01 How to Recover Files from Corrupted USB Drive
4:48 Manually repair damaged USB drive

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[padraic]

An absolute gentleman. Would not have gotten my issue sorted without you.

I followed each step on two different laptops but it was working for me.

The Wondershare Recovery worked though... Kind of. I installed it, had it scan for my drive and that fixed it. I didn't even need to buy the product to recover the data.

Once Wondershare scanned it, the USB Drive was back appearing in my Windows Explorer. I backed the hell up out of it immediately to my external drive. Spent the last 20/30 minutes barely moving incase it stopped working.

Backed up now and that stick is being chucked in the bin. Whether or not it's been fixed or not... The Cursed thing has caused me too much grief to even look at it anymore.

It's disloyalty cannot go unpunished.

[tubadawgedwards]

This doesn't helped me. As I watched almost every video people make to fix stuff. I have a USB driver that doesnt show on file explorer at all.

[joshh]

My USB was corrupted with all my 3D models and code files. This was all built up in a span of 4 years. The USB was my only hope after my laptop broke down. I tried using the commands like you did in the video, this made it accessible but deleted most of my data. Later in the video I saw the Wondershare method and I was doomed in my head because I had missed a big chance of getting my data back.

[doncapps]

I have data on my USB Drive. It has always worked but for some reason, when I plug it in windows 10 does not detect the drive. Actually if you watch carefully, it shows up for a split second then disappears. Windows states it cannot detect drive in D: All other usb drive work fine. Just this one has problems. Help?

[jasminepottinger]

Many thanks for your video. Thanks to you I was able to repair my USB drive and recover my files when others told me it could not be done. Thanks a mil.

[DiannaBrickey]

I had ALL of my work saved on my USB Flash Drive. I tried to open it and got a dreaded, "Corrupted and unable to read". I about threw up. I searched all over to find help. Professionals wanted an ungodly amount. Then I came across this video and the second tip (admin command) fixed it. I WANT TO KISS YOU!! Thank you so much!

[Revenant]

I know this is a little old but I need to fix a USB drive that I have been using Etcher to make boot disks for Linux distros. Can this be done or is the USB just trash now?

[stevenankney]

This was so helpful! Thank you! I was going to just buy a new USB but its a complicated one so it was going to cost a bit of money. You just saved me that money, thank you!!

[VarietyinTVandVHS]

on Solution 2: my flash drive says "windows found problems with the file system that could not be corrected"
what can I do??

[eslamzakariatornado]

Hello mate , I just moved about 50GB from phone to USB
Tonite was trying to play the vids again but i got suddened by seeing that many vids are not opening anymore with msg
FAILED PLAY THIS VIDEO

AN UNKNOWN ERROR HAS OCCURRED !!
I bieve it's a logical prob but what do you think the reason for that ?
Any help please, would be much appreciated 🙏

[elizarhad]

Thank you! You saved a month's worth of work!

[ume-cpym]

Hi. I have a memory stick showing this massage (( The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
F:/ is not accessible )) would you please help me to fix it?

[volvo]

Hello sir.
hopefully you can help me. My usb says it needs to
formatting. But im afraid that will delete all the photos i have stored in it. What should i do?

[chinedudennis]

Hi! have been seeing removable disk 1tb. doesn't the second option fix that?

[alejandromut]

The chkdsk command completely ruined my drive. Now it is not detected at all an does not show up anywhere. the computer makes no sound when I connect it and it doesn't even show up in disk management. Any ideas?

[derekroberts]

Can a device like a smartTV corrupt a video file? maybe when it’s old, i got it January 2015. 
i have a new pen drive… put some MP4 vids on it. played great on the blu ray, but when i tried to play it on the TV it said the file is corrupted…
and then tried the blu ray again… wouldn’t play no more…
so went back to my computer… replaced it with new copy (from computer)
again played fine on the blu ray… but tried to TV again… same thing…
the TV USB seems to corrupt the video files…
i’d like your input on this please?

[Martin-otxj]

Hi there, please make a tutorial video about how we can create a window 11 pro and Enterprise edition in one single wim file. Thankyou

[Valerie-dbgj]

This guy is great!! I was able to retrieve all my files. Thank you so much!!

[destinyslayer]

The first suggestion fixed it. Thank you a bunch for this. Upvoted.

[rager_fox]

This is software related, are there any videos on reparing the hardwware for a usb stick or flash drive? I keep seing usb ports, or how to get windows to recognize your flash drive, but what if the issue is with the flash drive, hardware wise. I want to know if there are videos about that. Thanks in advance