Mac Photo Recovery from Formatted USB Drive
USB drive is a data storage gadget incorporated with universal serial bus interface. It is a portable device that can be plugged into a computer USB port and functions as an external hard drive. As USB drives are easy-to-use, small enough to carry in a pocket and can be plugged into any computer, most of the Mac users prefer these devices to transfer the data from one computer to other or to store the important data. USB drives are also known as jump drives, thumb drives, pen drives, tokens, key drives or simply USB drives.
Most of the user prefers to store photos in USB drive as it portable and has different storage capacity ranging from several MB’s to several GB’s. Users may come across some issues which may lead to lose their important photos present in the USB drive. It might be due to formatting of the drive, virus attack, etc. Sometimes users may accidentally format the wrong drive instead of formatting the drive which they wanted to format.
Formatting of the USB drive is done when the user wants to delete the recent data and input new files in it. What if you format the USB drive accidentally in Mac system and lose all your photos? Can the photos be restored? Yes, you can perform Mac photo recovery from formatted USB drive and get back all photos which were lost due to formatting. Formatting will never erase your files from USB drive, it only erases the pointer which points to the stored location of the file and marks the space as free but the actual data still resides on the stored sector until it is overwritten with new data. Such files can be easily recovered with the aid of best Mac lost photo recovery software. Once you find that you have lost any data after formatting, you should not perform any read or write operation on the USB drive.
Remo Recover (Mac) – Media edition is an advanced Mac photo recovery software that helps you to recover photo from formatted or corrupt hard disk drive, SD Card, CF Card, memory stick, FireWire, memory cards and USB hard drives easily and quickly. The software supports recovery of photos from HFS+, HFSX, FAT16 and FAT32 formatted storage devices.
Steps to be followed to recover photos formatted from USB drive
Step 1:- Launch Remo Recover (Mac) – Media software by double clicking icon from ‘Applications’ folder or from the location where the software has been installed. Program main window will be displayed as shown in the Figure below
Step 2: Then select the volume from which you want to recover lost or deleted photos as shown in Figure below
Step 3: Then select the file types which you want to recover from the given files type list as shown in figure below
Step 4: Then the software starts scanning the selected volume to recover deleted or lost photos. After completion of process, you will get a new window showing all recovered photos as shown in the below figure (d)
