Top 8 USB Flash Drive Data Recovery Software that You Can Try

Stellar Data Recovery is an amazing USB Flash Drive Recovery tool, and it certainly checks almost all the boxes to make it up to the second number on our list. It’s a powerful USB Flash Drive recovery tool that comes with a handful of features to help you with the recovery. It comes with a trial version that allows actual data recovery; however, you can only recover up to 1gb of data with the trial version. Also, the pricing of the tool is slightly expensive if compared to its alternatives.

Pros:

• The program comes with a free trial version with up to 1gb of data recovery capacity.
• The program allows you to select a particular folder to scan so that you can be more specific.
• The quality of recovered files is really good and can be called as very close to the original.
• The recovery and scanning process of the program is fast and less time-consuming.

Cons:

• The pricing of the software is slightly higher than most of its alternative.
• The free trial version restricts the recovery of data to only up to 1gb.
• The recovery method that the tool follows is slightly longer if compared to its competitors.

Data Rescue, another great data recovery tool for USB Flash Drive. The tool is very effective when it comes to recovering formatted files from your USB Flash Drive, however, the same is its limitation as well, it doesn’t do well in recovering files from different scenarios. The USB Flash Drive recovery software is easy to use and can recover data from all kinds of external devices.

Pros:

• Easy and straight forward UI and recovery process.
• Supports the recovery from a variety of external devices.
• Can be used to create a bootup disk at the time of boot emergencies.
• It can help you in recovering data from partially functioning drives.

Cons:

• The tool doesn’t have a high recovery rate, it might or might not recover the data in full.
• This tool is in a way limited to the recovery of formatted files only.

On the fourth number is the Recuva Recovery Software for USB Flash Drive. Its clean and interactive User Interface makes it really easy to do the recovery. The tool comes for free and comes with a very less burden on its back. But the free price tag comes with a few compromises, the tool isn’t as powerful as it’s other paid alternatives. Still, the tool can do your light works.

Pros:

• Clean and interactive UI, very easy to use recovery method.
• It comes for free and is very lightweight.
• Comes with a feature that allows you to securely delete files.
• You can run its portable version with the help of a USB stick.

Cons:

• It’s less powerful as it comes for free.
• Can’t recover many of the easily recoverable files.
• The download page isn’t very user-friendly.

On the number 5th comes the Wise Data Recovery tool for USB Flash Drives, lightweight and very simple to use tool that allows you to recover deleted files from USB Flash Drive and all kinds of external devices with the help of its portable version. However, the biggest let down of this tool is that it only comes with a version supported with Windows, it can’t be used on Mac or another OS.

Pros:

• It’s a lightweight tool, easy to use, easy to install.
• The program shows you the recoverability of files prior to its recovery.
• The tool comes with a portable version to be used on multiple devices.
• The program is configured to work with the 64- and 32-bit version of windows.

Cons:

• The software isn’t supported with Mac, Linux, or any other OS. It only supports Windows.
• The recovery rate of the tool isn’t very good, it can’t recover each and every file.
• Once recovered, the files don’t go in their actual folder.

The last in the list is the iBoySoft Data Recovery tool for USB Flash Drive, being the last doesn’t mean that it can’t be used to recover a file from USB Flash Drive. The tool is a pretty good option to recover files from USB Flash Drive, the biggest plus being the fact that you don’t need to pay for an upgrade once you buy the software, all the version upgrades are free. But at the same time, the recovery rate of this tool isn’t good enough.

Pros:

• iBoySoft comes with a really straight forward and easy to use recovery methods.
• The scanning and recovery on the program are comparatively faster than its other competitors.
• The program comes with a free lifetime version upgrades once you buy one of the versions.
• The User Interface is really interactive and simple.

Cons:

• It doesn’t come with any type of additional utilities.
• The program doesn’t provide you with the ability to customize it manually.
• The recovery rate of the software isn’t the best if compared to its alternatives.

The iCare Data recovery software for USB Flash Drive is also a good option to recover corrupted files from USB Flash Drive. The program has a very easy to use and clean UI, and also the time it takes in the scanning is noticeably less than the other recovery tools out there. But the negative side being the flexibility of the tool, it supports only Windows and no other OS. Also, the UI of the tool is too simple starts to feel a little dull and very less interactive.

Pros:

• It can recover your lost files from different types of data loss scenarios.
• The program comes with a clean and easy to use interface.
• The scanning process for recovery is comparatively very less time-consuming.
• The program comes with multiple recovery modules i.e. basic and advance.

Cons:

• The program isn’t for all, as it does not come with a Mac supported version, it only supports Windows.
• The program does not support or fails in recovering the JPEG images.
• The UI seems pretty dull and less interactive.

Another free USB Flash Drive recovery software is the Pandora Data Recovery tool. The tool allows you to recover your files from USB flash Drive and as we as from other external devices. However, the biggest let down is that the tool doesn’t let you recover the file lost from a wide range of scenarios, all you can recover are the files that you deleted.

Pros:

• It’s a free and lightweight recovery tool.
• Comes with easy to use recovery method.
• It allows you to recover data from a large verity of External devices.
• The tool comes with colour coded and percentage indicators.

Cons:

• It lacks a portable version, thus, cannot be used on any other device than your PC.
• It only lets you recover the files that are deleted. No support for another kind of recovery scenarios.