
If a USB flash drive* or SD card gets wiped there’ll likely be a period of shocked silence, quickly followed by weeping and wailing. If our computer hard drive crashes there’s usually a period of weeping and wailing, followed by some form of remedial action – if possible. However, the good news is that most of the time data can be recovered from flash drives and SD cards. Never mind the heartache data loss that these devices can cause, it can also cause practical problems especially if these devices store the fruit of labours or sensitive information.

With portable flash drives now as ubiquitous as fresh air we store all sorts of important information on them from important and sensitive documents to family and holiday snaps on digital SD cards.
