Recovery - USB Flash Drive

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Dramamine

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Have a USB thumb drive. Was using a Mac yesterday, saving, copying, and using multiple files from my flash drive. At the end of the day, I went to open a file and realized that two entire (and fairly important) folders were missing, as were several more recent files--some from the same day. Now my drive reads as though it has more space available than it should. I keep seeing all these scams and $50 services to recover lost files from flash memory. Anyone know of any reliable freeware or techniques I could use to get my files back? Any help is appreciated, thanks.
 
I'd try Recuva first, then PhotoRec. Probably a good idea to make an image of the whole media first just in case any of your efforts go wrong and cause damage.
 
Neither Recuva nor PhotoRec worked. The files i need the most are word docs...these are extremely important and priceless to me...is there really no way to recover these files that is both reliable and free? If not, is paying for software more reliable and worth it? Any more light shed on this would be great...
 
Check out foremost. Works wonders and is dead simple to use.
 
do i need linux to use this? the only download i found was a .tar file. what do i use to open this? Im running windows XP mostly...have access to macbooks as well, if need be. got any links? thanks.
 
Yes, it's a linux/unix utility. You might try a virtual machine.
 
i have no idea how to use unix or implement a virtual machine.
this does not sound like it would be an easy route in my case...
but i might be wrong.
 
grab ubuntu, grab virtual box, read some how-to's and enjoy. You'll need gcc to install foremost.
 
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