Re: File Folders corrupted

USB sticks can be analysed and (possibly) repaired like any other storage
media. Google on disk data recovery or similar and you will find that there
are many utilities and services available, including ones that will look at
the device and tell you what's recoverable before you pay money to get the
version that will do the recovery. Or you can use a service where you ship
the device to them and they work on it in their labs.

It is very important that you do not write any new data to that USB stick
while it is in the current damaged state.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"ligerd" <> wrote in message
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> Help please! I just transferred like 14 GB of data on a USB stick, since
> I had to restore my computer to factory settings. Now when I reinsert my
> USB drive, first, a popup says to scan and fix the disk. Regardless of
> whether I do or do not scan it, when I open the USB drive (view files),
> some of the file folders are corrupted.
>
> My file folders like My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, that I've put
> on there, each have like 2 - 6 GB of data. But instead of showing up as
> a file folder, there's an icon that looks like a white page, and it's
> being recognized as a "file". The file type is just "file", and I don't
> think there's an extensition. the file size for all these folders are
> now only 32KB. Which is rediculous, because if I go into the properties
> for my USB stick, it stays that it has used up 14 GB, which is the
> correct size.
>
> I feel like if I could only let the computer know that these are not
> "file"'s , but file FOLDERS, I may be able to recover my data.
>
> There are file folders on my USB drive that are not corrupted. But
> those don't contain much data, and are not as important.
>
> Please help me! My life's worth of data is on this USB stick!
>
> Thanks so much!
>
>
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