USB stick is not only a tiny and portable storage device for us to save data, but also it can be used as a device to secure our data security. Here are some common usage of USB stick.
1. Encrypt your USB stick to secure your data
Although you can keep your personal data on the USB stick, but if you lost the USB stick by accident, you will not only lost your data but also will reveal your personal information. Therefore, encrypt your USB stick is necessary. Set a password for your USB stick so that every one who can access it only after entering the password. Also you can choose to encrypt your personal and private files to secure them.
2. Back up your data to other locations
In order to secure your data on the USB stick, you also need to add other ways to back up your data. You can back up your important data regularly to other devices like external hard drive, or cloud storage. If you lost your USB drive, you still can get your data on other device. Even if you have lost data on other device, you still can use the data recovery software to retrieve the lost data.
3. Use the USB disk to unlock your computer
If you have set a login password for your computer but you have forgot it, you can use the Usb stick to unlock the computer. You can use the installation disk or repair disk to reset the password.
How to recover data from Usb stick?
After you have data loss, you should first check your backups. If your backups are still available, you can easily recover your data from the backups. If you lost the USB stick, and the other backup also lost, you can try to recover data from the other device as long as the data have not been overwritten. But if you lost your data that have been encrypted, the data recovery software cannot help you to restore them.
Connect your USB stick to computer. Make sure the USB stick has showed up in the disk management.
Then install and run Hdata recovery software on your computer.
Click the button of Deleted your Files from flash disk.
Click to scan the USB stick. It will start to scan the disk automatically. The scanning time depends on the size of your files.
After scanning, you should preview the results to know if you can recover your lost files. If they are there, you can check them to recover.
Choose a recovery path for your data. The recovery path should be another location where have no data loss. If you save data on the USB stick, they will over written the raw data. Once the recovery process is interrupted or failed, you will lost your data forever.
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