For example, you might have dropped it accidentally, or the drive was overheated and then stopped working.Īfter knowing what makes your drive unreadable, you can go head to repair this USB disk.
Other hardware damage can also make USB drives corrupted. Possibly, you saved some documents like emails, videos that contain a virus to your USB drive, as a result, the disk is infected and the file system is corrupted. Many people abruptly unplug external drives like USB flash drive when files are transferring, while the data is not settled down probably. It's one of the most common causes for disk corruption. Therefore, we list some common reasons that could render your USB drive corrupted. Is there any way that I can use to repair corrupted the USB flash drive without losing data?' It's really a terrible disaster which is messing up my school life as I have all my school stuff like assignments and such stored on the USB.
'I have a little 2 GB USB flash drive which has been working for a year and just stopped recently.no idea why.
