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USB drive not showing any data, and could not able to find single trace of data? Then, straightaway download Remo Recover software to get bcak all your data from dead USB drive in 4 easy steps.

FOR MAC OS X USERS

When pen drive not showing files and folders due to virus infection or any other reasons, you can use iCare Data Recovery Pro to recover hidden data from USB. This data recovery software is able to deep scan and show hidden files from pen drive. Drive not showing up in Finder but visible in Disk Utility? Go to Finder window and view below the favourite list. If the drive greyed Out? Select the drive. It might visible. Solution 7:-Shut down your Mac computer. Unplug the power cord. Unplug all USB connections. Wait 30 seconds or 5 minutes then plug it back in. Then turn on your MacBook Pro or iMac.


“Hi need some help guys, today in my office I was planned to upgrade my Windows system; hence I copied all essential documents, project reports and some other data to my 32 GB USB drive. After upgrading my office computer I plugged in USB drive to restore files back to system, unfortunately I’m not able to find single trace of data. It’s an emergency guys I need those files at any cost, I don’t have any backup too. Is it possible to get files off USB drive showing no data? Can I restore data from USB drive on Windows system? If yes, please suggest me the way out to do so.”

Yes of course, you can recover data from an empty SD card or a USB flash drive showing no data after you delete files, or corrupt USB drive using the free Online data recovery tools. You can even Before that if your files are hidden, follow these steps to check if files are hidden:


  • Find out the letter assigned to your USB drive and then run command prompt
  • After that change drive letter to your USB drive’s letter and press enter
  • Then to make your data unhidden type attrib “Folder name” – USB drive letter

After doing this you can see the data stored in USB flash drive in case files were hidden. Even after doing this if you can’t find your files and folders on USB, don’t worry!!! You can restore data from USB drive that showing no data or even dead, by using reliable data recovery tools. Note that you don’t save any new data to USB drive displaying no data. You might wonder why your USB drive is not showing any data, it is because of virus infection, faulty hardware, etc.

An ideal solution to resolve data loss from USB drive problem is Remo Recover.!

Remo Recover software is completely free from virus and it includes user friendly graphical interface, which helps you to recover data from USB drive showing no data in just few mouse clicks. Even the deleted, formatted, corrupted, and lost partition from USB drive can be recovered with this software. It includes highly advance data recovery algorithms that perform rigorous scanning of entire USB flash drive to restore lost files. This is the most widely used USB drive data recovery software around the globe, as it posse 100% data recovery rate from USB devices not showing files. The renowned Kingston USB flash drive data recovery tool recovers data from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 file system based USB drives. This software is highly compatible with all major versions of Windows operating system like Windows 2000, Windows 2002, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. It also supports all brands of USB flash drives like SanDisk, HP, Transcend, Sony, Toshiba, etc. This USB Drive recovery software also recovers data from external hard drive, memory card, pen drive, and other storage devices. Recovers documents, audios, videos and other important data stored in USB drive in just couple of minutes. Remo Recover Mac edition enables you to perform dead USB flash drive data recovery Mac with maxumum accuracy and efficiency.

Things to Remember: -

  • Do not format USB drive, if not really necessary.
  • Avoid abrupt removal of USB flash drive while transferring data from system to USB drive or vice versa.
  • To access the USB drive faster, make sure to keep it safe from any kind of virus/malware.

Steps to recover files from USB drive showing no data: -

Step 1: After installing the trial edition of Remo Recover software on your computer, run the application. Now, connect the USB drive to the system via USB Port and select “Recover Partitions” option from main screen. Then, choose the USB drive from the list of available drives in the system, and clicck Scan button

Figure A: Main Screen

Step 2: After the completion of scanning process, the software displays all the partitions in the USB drive. Now, Select the drive from where you want to recover files and click Scan button to start scanning the USB drive to recover lost data

Figure B: Select USB Drive

Step 3: Now, the software scans the selected USB drive partition to recover files. Once scanning and recovery process is completed, all the recoverable files will be displayed on the screen. You can view the files in either Data View or File Type View

Figure C: Recovered Data View

Tenacious d movie clips. Step 4: Prior saving the recovered files, you can preview the recovered files one by one using Preview option

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Figure D: Preview Recoverable Data

Step 5: After previewing all the recoverable files, and if you are happy with the recovery results, you can activate the software to save the recovered files

Figure E: Save Recoverable Data


Lot of Mac OS X users reported this issue in Apple support communities. External hard drive showing up in Disk utility not in Devices. This problem also happened after OS X Yosemite update.
Solution 1:-
Go to Settings -> Finder Preferences . Under the General tab, select External drive in “Show these items on the desktop”.

Files
Solution 2 :-

Go to Disk utility and select the external drive from the left sidebar. Choose verify disc. It will find and correct minor errors.

Solution 3:-

If you are connecting your external hard drive with Mac using USB Hub, check the USB hub first.

Solution 4:-

  1. Open Disk Utility. If your external USB drive drive faded/greyed out and unmountable?
  2. Connect another external drive or Pen drive to computer. This drive also not recognized drive?
  3. Do the proper eject from the Finder window list.
  4. Restart your computer and connect the external drive.

Solution 5:-

  1. From the Finder menu, select “Go to Finder”.
  2. Type the external drive path what appears under Disk Utility. Ex: /Volumes/sleekdisk

Solution 6:-

Usb Flash Drive Not Showing All Files

Drive not showing up in Finder but visible in Disk Utility?
Go to Finder window and view below the favourite list. If the drive greyed Out? Select the drive. It might visible.

Solution 7 :-

  1. Shut down your Mac computer .
  2. Unplug the power cord.
  3. Unplug all USB connections.
  4. Wait 30 seconds or 5 minutes then plug it back in.
  5. Then turn on your MacBook Pro or iMac.
  6. Plug the external drive only to the USB port. Open Finder and check your drive.

Solution 8:-

Install and run run Onyx (maintenance freeware) or
run Kext_Utility.app.v2.6.1 and restart your Mac machine.

Solution 9:-

Some times this issue might happened because of the unsupported drive format.
Install Fuse for OS X, NTFS-3G for Mac OS X and Fuse wait.
Restart your computer and check the issue.

If the above methods not working?

  • Install fresh OSX Yosemite.
  • Connect your segate external drive or WD passport to Windows computer. Delete the partition and connect back to MacBook Pro.

If you knew any other solutions, inform us via comment.