USB Data Recovery

After my recent incident with Vista (http://forums.techarp.com/general-software/24808-i-officially-hate-vista-_.html) I discovered that it somehow messed up my USB stick too. Whenever I try to open it it says that it's corrupt and unreadable. Anyone have some suggestions on how to try and recover the data?

 

could try recuva(Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery - Home)

 

Thanks for the suggestion, it was able to find all my files, but unfortunately only 5% of the recovered files weren't corrupted :/ Maybe my USB stick is just toast, but still i'd like to try some other programs. Plus it would be nice if it could recover the folder structure too.

 

found another one, worth trying
TestDisk - CGSecurity

 

Thanks again! Going to try it out now

 

Testdisk was able to recover all my files including folder structure and repair the damaged boot sector on my USB stick! Thanks for the great find

 

glad it works
now I need to get a copy of it

how long it took?

 

Took about a min or so to repair the boot sector, since the data was still there.

 

Wow .. nice. I always just format usb .. hehehe .. never keep anything important in SSD ..

 

Was just about to recommend TestDisk as well. It saved my butt a few times already!

 

It's really a great program