Flash drive has corrupt files

The USB flash drive is like the hard drive to store all data files on it. There can be many reasons that make the USB flash drive got corrupt or unreadable, and the data on the drive can not be accessed.

The common logical and physical corruption issues may make your USB data corrupt or inaccessible. Some logical errors with the drive, you can easily fix it, repair the file structure, and reuse the USB flash drive. The physical corruption issues are dead-driven broken stems, RAW, format error and accessibility, etc. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Type the code diskpart and press Enter.

All your device connected to your computer will be displayed. Step 4. Make sure you selected the right USB drive, or you would format the internal hard drive. Step 5. Step 1. Step 2. Right-click the Removable Disk and open its Properties. Step 4. If the corrupted file is scanned, you can choose to fix it. Then remove the drive from the USB port. Type CMD and select Run as administrator to enter command prompts administrator. Step 3. Note: X is the drive letter of your flash drive.

You need to replace X depending on your flash drive letter. Right-click on the folder that contains files which corrupted, select Restore Previous Versions. In the pop-up window, a list of older versions of the file will be displayed. In order to hire double insurance for important files, you are advised to back them up regularly. Step 2. When the scan completes, you can apply the "Filter" feature or the click the search box to quickly find the lost files from USB.

Step 3. Preview the files you want to recover. Click the "Recover" button to restore files. Check video tutorial here. When the fixing is finished, you can retrieve corrupted files on USB. Connect the USB to your computer. Step 5. Windows will fix any disk error it finds. After the process, try to open your USB drive and restore your files.

Click the search box and type cmd. You'll see Command Prompt in the search results. Right-click Command Prompt and choose "Run as administrator". The chkdsk operation will start to check errors and repair the damaged USB drive. If command line is not your ideal choice, you can apply this command-line alternative tool - EaseUS CleanGenius. Use this one-click tool to fix the file system error on your hard drive. Run the software.

Click "Optimization" on the left panel, and then choose "File Showing". Go to "Choose drive" and select the drive with a file system error.

Check the "Check and fix file system error" option and click "Execute".