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Transcend produces not only flash drives, but also memory cards of various formats. The most popular format is SD. The most common causes of faulty Transcend SD cards are:

accidental deletion of information or formatting of the medium;
virus attacks;
damaged partitions.

Transcend Memory Card Data Recovery

Particularly difficult is the recovery of Transcend microSD memory cards in case of hardware failures. The bottom line is that this format is smaller in size than SD or miniSD, but recovery is possible if you use a microscope and a soldering iron. If the card does not have valuable information, then the AutoFormat Tool application can be tried first.

In some cases, the program can repair flash cards from Transcend and other manufacturers. If this measure did not help, you should find out the VID / PID and reflash the controller. If you accidentally delete information from Transcend memory cards, you can recover the data if no new photos have been recorded on the card.

The most reliable way is to use the R-Studio application (Figure 1). It supports all flavors of file systems that are used on flash drives, as well as the file systems of the Mac OS and Linux operating systems. The utility also helps when you need to recover data from hard drives. This application is paid, but its purchase is justified, since it provides a high probability of recovery.

Various problems with USB drives or flash drives - this is what, probably, every owner of them faces. The computer does not see the USB flash drive, files are not deleted or written, Windows writes that the disk is write-protected, the amount of memory is incorrectly displayed - this is not a complete list of such problems. Perhaps, if the computer simply does not detect the drive, this guide will also help you: (3 ways to solve the problem). If the flash drive is detected and works, but you need to recover files from it, first I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the material.

If various ways to fix USB drive errors by manipulating the drivers, actions in Windows Disk Management or using the command line (diskpart, format, etc.) did not lead to a positive result, you can try utilities and programs for repairing flash drives provided by both manufacturers such as Kingston, Silicon Power and Transcend, and third-party developers.

On the official website of Silicon Power in the "Support" section, there is a program for repairing flash drives from this manufacturer - USB Flash Drive Recovery. To download, you will need to enter an email address (not verified), then the UFD_Recover_Tool ZIP archive is downloaded, which contains the SP Recovery Utility (requires .NET Framework 3.5 components to work, will be downloaded automatically if necessary).

Similarly to the previous program, SP Flash Drive Recovery requires an Internet connection to work and recovery takes place in several stages - defining the parameters of a USB drive, downloading and unpacking a suitable utility for it, then automatically performing the necessary actions.

Silicon Power SP Flash Drive Recovery Software can be downloaded for free from the official website http://www.silicon-power.com/web/download-USBrecovery

If you own a Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 drive, then on the official Kingston website you can find a repair utility for this line of flash drives that will help you format the drive and bring it to the state it had when it was purchased.

You can download Kingston Format Utility for free from https://www.kingston.com/ru/support/technical/downloads/111247

ADATA USB Flash Drive Online Recovery

The manufacturer Adata also has its own utility that will help fix flash drive errors, if you cannot read the contents of the flash drive, Windows reports that the drive is not formatted, or you see other errors related to the drive. To download the program, you will need to enter the serial number of the flash drive (to load exactly what is required) as in the screenshot below.

After downloading - run the downloaded utility and follow a few simple steps to restore the USB device.

The official page where you can download ADATA USB Flash Drive Online Recovery and read about using the program - http://www.adata.com/ru/ss/usbdiy/

Apacer Repair Utility, Apacer Flash Drive Repair Tool

Several programs are available for Apacer flash drives at once - different versions of Apacer Repair Utility (which, however, cannot be found on the official website), as well as Apacer Flash Drive Repair Tool, available for download on the official pages of some of the Apacer flash drives (look on the official website specifically your USB drive model and check the downloads section at the bottom of the page).

Apparently, the program performs one of two actions - simple formatting of the drive (Format item) or low-level formatting (Restore item).

Formatter Silicon Power

Formatter Silicon Power is a free utility for low-level formatting of flash drives, which, according to reviews (including in the comments to the current article), works for many other drives (but use it at your own peril and risk), allowing you to restore their performance when no other methods don't help.

The utility is no longer available on the official SP website, so you have to use Google to download it (I don’t give links to unofficial locations within this site) and do not forget to check the downloaded file, for example, on VirusTotal before launching it.

SD Memory Card Formatter for repairing and formatting SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards (including Micro SD)

The SD Memory Card Manufacturers Association (SDCA) offers its own universal utility to format the appropriate memory cards when problems arise with them. Moreover, judging by the available information, it is compatible with almost all such drives.

The program itself is available in versions for Windows (there is support for Windows 10) and MacOS and is quite easy to use (but you need a card reader).

You can download SD Memory Card Formatter from the official website https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/

D-Soft Flash Doctor

The free D-Soft Flash Doctor program is not tied to any specific manufacturer and, judging by the reviews, can help fix problems with a flash drive through low-level formatting.

In addition, the program allows you to create an image of a flash drive for subsequent work not on a physical drive (in order to avoid further malfunctions) - this can be useful if you need to get data from a Flash disk. Unfortunately, the official site of the utility could not be found, but it is available on many resources with free programs.

How to find a program to repair a USB flash drive

In fact, there are much more of this kind of free utilities for repairing flash drives than are listed here: I tried to take into account only relatively "universal" tools for USB drives from different manufacturers.

It is possible that none of the above utilities are suitable for restoring your USB drive to work. In this case, you can use the following steps to find the program you want.

Additionally: if all the described methods to repair the USB drive did not help, try it.

MicroSD recovery is a very popular topic in our time, because flash drives break very often, and you don't want to lose information from them.

Therefore, many are looking on the Internet for information on the easiest way to get information from a medium that does not work.

Moreover, the problems can be very different - someone's flash drive simply does not recover, someone has errors, and so on.

And the answer to the above question is very simple - there is a special program for recovering MicroSD, and far from one.

The user only needs to use the most suitable one.

MicroSD recovery software

CardRecovery

This program does an excellent job of recovering photos, videos and audio content from storage media.

Unfortunately, it does not restore ordinary files, therefore it is intended only for those flash drives that are used in mobile phones, cameras and players.

How to use CardRecovery:

Download the program from this link. Launch it, read the greeting and click Next.
Select the flash drive in the Drive letter section, the device type in the "Camera Brand and File type" section (in the same place we put a checkmark in front of those types of files that will be restored) and the folder where the restored files will be saved in the Destination Folder section. Click Next.
We are waiting for the end of the recovery process. Click Next.
We see a list of recovered files. We put a check mark next to those that we want to save. Click Next for the last time. The process is over.

PC Inspector Smart Recovery

This is a much more functional program that recovers almost all types of files available today.

It works for both non-removable hard drives and removable media. To use it, you need to do the following:

Download the program from this link. Open it.
In the start window, select the "Restore logical files" item. You may need to click on the tab with the green up arrow on the left.
Next, you need to select the desired disk on one of the tabs (it can be among the logical disks). Click on the checkmark on the right.

Hint: You can find out the letter and name of the flash drive in Windows in "My Computer" ("Computer", "This computer" depending on the OS).

Select the starting and ending sector. This must be done so that the scan size matches the media size. Click on the checkmark on the left.
Next, we will see a list of all files. Green indicates those that can be restored, and yellow - those that do not require restoration. After that, you need to click on the floppy disk icon on the left.

R-Studio

The official website says that today it is the most "comprehensive" software for file recovery.

Users do not resist this conclusion. To recover data using R-Studio, you need to do the following:

Download the program (here is the link) and run it.
In the Drivers section, click on the media from which the data will be restored. Its properties will be displayed in the Properties section.
Further in the Folders section, folders will be displayed, and in the Contents section - the files in this folder. To restore them, you need to click on the Recover button on the top panel of the program window.

Easy Recovery

Many experts say that this is a really good file recovery software. There is only one way to check this:

Download the free version of the program from this link and run it.
In the start window, click "Continue". In the next, select "Memory Cards".
Press "Continue" again. Select "Data Recovery" and at the bottom put a checkmark in front of the file system of this media.
Press "Continue" again. Wait until the end of scanning of deleted files and the window with a report on the list of deleted files and folders. You can right-click on each and select "Save As ...".

Flash Memory Toolkit

It is a very versatile program.

In addition to restoring, it can also perform the functions of testing, destroying confidential information, backing up and obtaining detailed information about the device.

To recover data, you just need to select the USB flash drive in the Device section, click on the File Recovery item in the left menu and follow all the instructions of the program.

Prompt: All of the above programs can be downloaded for free on the non-commercial resource flashboot.ru.

Read our other articles on flash drive repair:

Sometimes recovering a MicroSD flash drive using the above programs does not go as smoothly as you want - some problems may arise.

Let's consider the most common ones.

MicroSD recovery issues

MicroSD is not detected

It happens that you need to restore a MicroSD card, but the computer does not see it - banal.

Interestingly, this usually happens completely unexpectedly and for no apparent reason: the user once again inserts the card, and suddenly the computer stops seeing it (he used to insert it, and everything was fine).

In this case, three options are possible:

1. The letter of the drive name matches the letter of the already connected drive. Indeed, it is possible that some kind of storage medium is already connected to the computer, and for some reason the flash drive is indicated by the same letter when connected. In this case, you need to open the standard "Disk Management" utility (Win + R and enter "diskmgmt.msc"), select the flash drive there, right-click on it and select "Change drive letter or path to disk". After that, it remains to indicate some other letter of the Latin alphabet and save the changes.

1. Lack of drivers. In some cases, both an old checked and a new computer with a newly installed operating system may not have drivers for some media. There is only one way out - download and install them. The best way to do this is by searching the official site. You can use the program. You can download it by. It independently determines which devices are connected to the computer and whether there are driver updates for them. Conveniently, the program will automatically determine if the drivers for the flash drive are installed. If they are not, they will be installed en masse, along with everyone else. To do this, the user just needs to click on the "Drivers" tab on the left and click on the "Install automatically" button.

You can also try connecting the memory card to another device. This will give you a chance to still read the necessary files and use the recovery program. For example, you can insert a MicroSD into your phone and restore not the card itself, but the entire phone as a carrier.

Read other GeekNose materials about data recovery from disks:

Another common problem is that the computer sees the flash drive, but does not see the files themselves on the flash drive.

MicroSD files cannot be seen by the computer

This means that the flash drive itself is detected by the computer, but some files (or even all) are not on it.

The user may immediately think that the problem is in the card itself and it needs to be restored. But things can be much easier.

The solution to this problem is to check the computer for viruses, in particular, Trojans, and remove them.

Indeed, the Trojan can hide files. Therefore, feel free to turn on and use your antivirus before lamenting your lost data.

It is worth saying that in some cases, the microSD recovery process may differ depending on the device manufacturer.

MicroSD recovery from different manufacturers

MicroSD Recovery Transcend

Transcend has its own file recovery software for MicroSD cards. It's called RecoveRx.

This program takes into account the individual characteristics of the cards of this manufacturer and is able to perform its functions much better than all of the above programs.

In addition to recovery, RecoveRx can format the card and put a password on it.

To perform recovery, you need to do the following:

Download and run the program (here is the link). Select Recover from the menu above. Select Transcend in the program window (it may differ depending on the name of the card, by default it is as shown here).
Select file types.
Wait until the end of the process and see the list of files available for saving. Save the required ones using the drop-down menu (the one that appears after right-clicking on the file).

MicroSD Recovery Kingston

The problem with flash drives from this manufacturer is that they mainly use Phison controllers.

This means that the user will have to resort to low-level recovery.

Other methods may simply not work. In a nutshell, the process is as follows:

1. Define the Vendor ID and Product ID parameters, so that you can then find the required utility using them. This can be done using the USBDeview program (link). Open the program and find the required card in the list. Click on it with the right mouse button and select the item "Html-report: selected elements". Scroll down the window that appears until we see the Vendor ID and Product ID.

Go to the website flashboot.ru/iflash/ and enter the required parameters in the appropriate fields. As a result, we will see a list of all cases when problems occurred with this model. And on the right, in the UTILS section, there will be programs for low-level recovery of this model. The user needs to try them all - usually on the official sites you can find more detailed instructions for use.

MicroSD Kingmax recovery

Kingmax also has its own software. There are two programs - one for U-Drive and PD-07 series drives, and one for Super Stick.

You can download both programs.

Their use is extremely simple - you need to insert a USB flash drive, run the program and click on the desired drive.

Sandisk MicroSD Recovery

After that, the flash drive will work like new. The software is very easy to use.

In the Silicon Power Formatter, there is generally only one small window with two buttons (you need to click Format there), and SDFormatter has more options, but all the same, it will be enough to click the Format button.

Smartbuy MicroSD recovery

One interesting moment is peculiar to working with flash drives from this manufacturer - if the flash drive does not work, you can just wait, up to several years, and after that it will work again.

If you don't want to wait, you need to try all the recovery programs that you can find.

This application looks like a regular folder.

After selecting the media, you need to click on the Recover button at the top, wait for the process to finish and see a list of files that can be recovered.

Qumo MicroSD recovery

Qumo microSDs are famous for the fact that they just suddenly "die". Once they stop working, and after that it will be very problematic to see at least some signs of life in them.

Some users advise using the aforementioned R-Studio and CardRecovery programs. But they will not be effective in all cases.

There are special companies that are engaged in the restoration of "dead" flash drives using hardware methods, but such services are not cheap, and usually it is cheaper to purchase a new drive.

A-Data MicroSD Recovery

In this case, too, most programs do not help. Paragon Partition Manager Free works best with A-Data flash drives.

First, in this program, you need to perform formatting (the Format Partition button in the main menu), and then create a new empty partition (Create new partition).

Oltramax MicroSD recovery

In this case, full formatting with SD Card Formatter also helps a lot. In some cases, it is possible to restore the drive's performance using ALCOR MP.

Full instructions for its use can be read.

Recovering damaged microSD

In some cases, when using the drive, the message "Damaged memory card" or something similar may appear on the screen.

The following programs help here:

Smart Data Recovery - you need to select a medium and click the Find button, after which all files that can be somehow restored will be searched;

Figure: No. 14. List of files available for recovery in Recuva

BadCopyPro - click on the Memory card on the left, then Next, Next again, wait for the process to end and see a list of the files you need.

The same operations can be performed on an Android device. The following applications help here:

Prevention

It is better to first use the flash drive correctly, so that later there will be no problems with its malfunction. Here are some tips to help you avoid MicroSD damage:

Do everything you can to prevent the drive from falling, bouncing, bending, or being subjected to extreme temperature changes or other influences that could damage it.
Avoid ionizing radiation (this is the case, for example, in X-ray machines).
Do not touch the contacts with your fingers and generally try to keep them always covered with a special cover.
Defragment the card from time to time and generally use it regularly - MicroSDs don't like to just lie on the shelf.
Try to make backups from time to time so that in case of a breakdown you do not lose all data. To do this, you can use "cloud" storage.
Do not fill the entire volume of the drive, but always have some free space.
If the card is in a device, try to remove it from there less often.

See our other materials on formatting hard drives and flash drives:

It is quite difficult to imagine a modern person without a digital storage device. The flash drive is currently a successful portable object that stores a lot of useful information.

The advantage of a flash drive is that it does not take up much space and is accompanied by increased practicality. Even when dropped, it is not always damaged, as it was previously with discs.

Another advantage is that recording the desired content on it is not only faster, but also much easier.

Unfortunately, despite its unique practicality, it can happen that the flash drive stops functioning at some point.

Of course, you can peacefully "say goodbye" to a dead flash drive, go to the store where you can buy a new digital drive.

If you find it difficult to get rid of the usual storage medium so easily, then we recommend that you study the recommendations on how to restore a "dead" Transcend flash drive.

Recovery process

Before making minor repairs to the damaged Transcend flash drive, it is important to establish the reason why it failed.

This diagnosis can be compared to the treatment of a patient. The doctor also initially examines the patient, makes a diagnosis, identifies the cause of the pathology, and only after that prescribes treatment.

We also recommend that you "treat" your affected digital media. This will help quite effectively the program for recovering a USB flash drive Transcend, which can be easily downloaded using the offers on the network.

However, it is still useful initially to establish the cause of the failure, because of which you have to "scoop" recommendation information.

Reasons for failure

In most cases, you have to consider recovering a Transcend flash drive due to a banal software failure that users have to deal with quite often.

Some tricks allow us to assert that, indeed, a software glitch presented such an unpleasant surprise.

Insert your drive into the USB port and watch what happens next. If all your attempts to open the media are in vain, but at the same time the computer will see the Transend flash drive, then it is likely that it has undergone a software failure.

You can also suspect the same if, when you connect a storage device through the USB connector, you hear a characteristic sound signal, but no visible changes will appear on the screen, including you will not find your storage device when you start the "Computer" window.

Also, a software failure is indicated by a factor when the PC sees a USB flash drive, but not all, but only a part of its disk space.

Of course, if you find confirming "symptoms" of a software failure, as a result of which you need to restore the Transend flash drive, you do not need to despair, feverishly remember what could be the reason for such a trouble.

Of course, you could also provoke a failure of the digital media if you neglected the recommendations on how to properly remove the drive from the USB connector.

A fall of the device, strong mechanical squeezing may serve as a reason for failure. There are also possible reasons that are completely independent of the user's actions.

Eliminating the problem

Those who have become firmly convinced that the drive has stopped responding to any actions want to find a program for recovering a flash drive.

Indeed, there is a utility for recovering a Transcend flash drive, it is not so difficult to find, download and install on a computer.

One of the programs for recovering a flash drive

However, initially it is important to make sure that the digital storage device is "dead". Sometimes it happens that it does not respond on one PC, but functions perfectly on another computer equipment.

A software failure is often found on the PC itself, when, for example, the drivers "flew".

You can also try to disconnect all peripheral devices from the USB connectors, and connect only a USB flash drive. Even such a simple move sometimes makes it easy to fix the problem.

If all the attempts that have been made are in vain, we recommend that you inspect your digital drive from all sides. It is useful to pay attention to all chips, cracks that you find on the case.

It will not be superfluous to look inside the part that connects to the USB connector. Sometimes this visual examination is sufficient to reveal poor internal contact.

Do not be afraid to carefully open the case of the carrier and inspect it for integrity inside. It is useful to carry out a thorough visual inspection of its internal contents.

You can also try to eliminate bad contact yourself, but only if you have special tools for this. If there are none, it is unlikely that you will be able to eliminate even the identified problems.

Only after you have made sure that mechanical damage is excluded, you can proceed to the next stage, after completing which it is possible to recover the digital medium.

Of course, in this case, you will definitely need a program to restore the Transend flash drive.

For the correct recovery of a flash drive, it is important to first clarify the type of memory installed on the media, its ID, firmware version, controller ID and other technical details.

In this case, you cannot do without the help of a special utility Chip Genius. With such a utility, you will not only get information quickly, but it will be accurately presented without errors.

Based on the information received, you can begin a search, the purpose of which is a program to restore your flash drive.

The ideal solution for your task is not even a recovery utility, but the JetFlash Online Recovery utility.

This option is suitable for those users whose computer is provided with constant and reliable access to the Internet.

Do not even tune in to a time-consuming process, your expectations will be in vain. Immediately after starting such a service program, as well as connecting the digital "dead" drive to the USB connector, the "resuscitation" process will start automatically.

You just have to wait patiently for the process to complete. The only thing you have to do is click on the "Yes" button, confirming your readiness to grant the program itself the right to work with the flash drive.

After completing the work, the program will notify you about it. Now unplug the USB stick and then plug it back in. If the "resuscitation" process has been effective, you will find instantly that your digital drive is "alive". You can again copy, write and other functional user manipulations on it.

If the flash drive has not "come to life", you will have to say goodbye to it, and get yourself a new digital "assistant".

So, you were able to make sure that the process of recovering digital media is not difficult. However, such a process requires increased attention, responsibility for each step taken.

I had a little trouble. A 32 gigabyte flash drive from transcend has stopped working. That is, the operating system does not see it. And not that there would be very valuable information, but because of the large volume, it became a pity to throw the flash drive away "without a fight."

It was not possible to reanimate the device using the standard JetFlash Recovery Tool. I had to find another way. A little "googling" on the topic of how to restore a USB flash drive, I found an online service for firmware directly from the manufacturer.

The service only supports, for obvious reasons, devices manufactured by Transcend. If it happens to your flash drive that it refuses to be detected in the system or some other malfunction has occurred. Do not rush to throw it away, but try to restore it using the online recovery service.

It was with the help of him that I was able to restore the performance of my flash drive.

For greater clarity, I recorded a video on how to restore a USB flash drive using the transcend service:

To use the transcend flash drive recovery service, you need to go to the site by entering the following address in the address bar of your browser: http://ru.transcend-info.com/support/DlCenter/DLSoftware.asp?SID\u003d3

So, we go to the service page. We select the type of your device.

To download the program, you will need to register.

You will be prompted to download the OnlineRecovery program. It should be noted here that the program requires administrator rights! Therefore, you need to run the utility as an administrator.

After starting the program, you need to select the volume of the restored drive. In my case, this is 4 gigabytes, and click "Ok"

While the program is running, do not disconnect the Internet connection!

After the program checks the USB flash drive, it will offer to restore the device without saving the data, or you can try to restore the information.

We press start.

That's all. We are waiting for the end of the process, after which we remove the USB flash drive and check the performance.

In this article, I wrote how to restore a transcend flash drive using the manufacturer's standard service.

Thus, I was able to recover two flash drives for 32 and 4 gigabytes. I hope this method will help you too. Good luck.