How may I open usb without formatting? How to recover files from usb that needs to be formatted?' When right click USB flash drive, the only option is to format the USB drive. Double clicking the USB flash drive, it reports disk drive not formatted error message. Under Disk Management, it says the USB drive is healthy, but also recognizes it as a RAW device. The file system of the USB drive has changed to RAW from FAT32. Thanks for any help!'Ĭase 2: ' I receive a message telling my usb stick is not formatted do you want to format it now on my USB flash drive. Can anybody tell me how to retrieve files from USB memory stick without formatting? All photos and videos stored on this USB memory stick are quite important to me. However, I have no idea what to do if I don’t format it. I don’t dare to format the USB memory stick because I don’t want to lose any data on it.

I cannot access the USB stick because Windows says that my USB memory stick needs to be formatted before I can use it.

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