External Hard Drive issue

[Jacquelyn Thompson]

I received a new lap top from work, I downloaded all my files from my work desk top on to a USB flash Drive, checked to make sure it was all there and left. when I connected the USB to my laptop and it told me it had to "format the drive to my computer" but told me all the data on the drive would be lost, I selected to cancel since I cannot lose this data on the drive. when I reconnected the drive to my desktop I now get the same request on my desk top to format the USB drive and I cannot access any of the files on the drive. I need to know how to get these files back with out losing them! I just checked my desk top and apparently the files were all downloaded to my flash drive, and they are no longer on my desk top at all. Please help!

 

[chesteracorgi]

As long as the files were not deleted from the desk top at work you should be able to recopy them onto the flash drive if you format it on your laptop. I'd format the flash drive on the laptop , then copy the files from the work desktop, then copy them to the laptop.

 

[Kursun]

I received a new lap top from work, I downloaded all my files from my work desk top on to a USB flash Drive, checked to make sure it was all there and left. when I connected the USB to my laptop and it told me it had to "format the drive to my computer" but told me all the data on the drive would be lost, I selected to cancel since I cannot lose this data on the drive. when I reconnected the drive to my desktop I now get the same request on my desk top to format the USB drive and I cannot access any of the files on the drive. I need to know how to get these files back with out losing them! Please help!

If the data is already deleted on the desktop you may try EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover the files on the usb flash drive.

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

 

[Jacquelyn Thompson]

As long as the files were not deleted from the desk top at work you should be able to recopy them onto the flash drive if you format it on your laptop. I'd format the flash drive on the laptop , then copy the files from the work desktop, then copy them to the laptop.

That was my original thought, but apparently all I did was download the files to the drive and I didn't copy them, so there now is nothing on my desktop. Do you think there is maybe an option to take it somewhere and have them recover the data.