A USB flash drive consists of flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB 1.1 or 2.0 interface. Removable and rewritable, and weighing less than 30g, USB flash drives have storage capacities ranging from 16MB to 256 GB, one million write or erase cycles, and a 10-year data retention capacity. They are compatible with all modern operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix-like systems.

If data are lost or deleted from your flash drive, they are really lost, because they when deleted do not go to your Trash or Recycle Bin, for nothing moves mechanically in a flash drive. A flash-drive is an external device, but not a part of your computer. Computers simply read and write flash-drive data using the same system commands as for a mechanical disk drive, with the storage appearing to the computer operating system and user interface as just another drive (thus retaining the term 'drive' in flash-drive).

So, what happens if you have lost your photos from your flash drive from whatever cause it may be including, deletion, corruption and inaccessibility, formatting, etc.? What do you do to recover those photos you cannot afford to lose? If you are at a loss, here comes a help. Run the data backup program available on your computer. This may recover the photos inaccessible to normal operations but existing still in the drive's partition table. It should be borne in mind that you should avoid writing any data on this drive before recovery, lest your images will most probably get overwritten. Overwritten data cannot be recovered.

There are, however, times when data lost or deleted from from flash drives cannot be recovered by this simple built-in facility. Then, will you have to accept that your images are lost, and you are left helpless? No. Because, if your are really serious about your data, you are always on the possible side. Use some specifically developed digital photo recovery software. Photographs recovery applications employ advanced methods to provide comprehensive digital photo recovery solutions needed at the time.

Along this line, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2 comprehensively recovers lost multimedia files of various formats from almost all storage media even after formatting. Compatible with Windows and Apple Mac operating systems, this digital Photo recovery application saves the recovered data in a user-specified location without modifying or overwriting the original files.