{"id":1864,"date":"2016-08-03T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2023-12-08T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T07:22:29","slug":"recover-data-from-usb-flash-drive-showing-0-bytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/recover-data-from-usb-flash-drive-showing-0-bytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Recover Data from USB Flash Drive Showing 0 Bytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article posted here to explain USB flash drive showing 0 bytes issue, including symptoms, causes and solutions. It is a common problem that an SD Card\/USB Drive\/Pen Drive Shows 0 Bytes, and you can fix it and restore data easily following solutions here.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Symptoms<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHi, everyone. Whenever I plug my 8 GB USB flash drive to computer\u2019s USB port and try to open it in Windows Explorer. I cannot open it and receive an prompt saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diskgenius.com\/how-to\/you-need-to-format-the-disk.php\">You need to format it before you can use it<\/a>. It seems that I have no other choice. Then I clicked on the button \u2018Format Disk\u2019, but I got another error message \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diskgenius.com\/how-to\/windows-was-unable-to-complete-the-format.php\">Windows was unable to complete the format<\/a>\u2019. I viewed its properties and found out it is 0 bytes in Used space, Free space and Capacity. What should I do now? I don\u2019t want to lose files on the USB drive. Any solution will be greatly appreciated. \u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1867 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USB-0-bytes.png\" alt=\"USB Flash Drive Showing 0 Bytes\" width=\"372\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USB-0-bytes.png 372w, https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/USB-0-bytes-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not acceptable that a USB drive turns to 0 bytes, especially when we\u2019ve stored many files to the drive. However, this error happens to many users, and you may get other error messages such as \u201cSector not found\u201d \u201cInvalid media type reading\u201d \u201cThe disk in drive is not formatted\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/how-to-recover-data-whenchkdsk-is-not-available-for-raw-drives\/\">The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drive<\/a>.\u201d What\u2019s more, many devices can suffer from this error such as a USB drive, pen drive, flash drive, memory card, external hard drive, etc.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Why does USB flash drive show 0 bytes size?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a good sign to USB flash drive which turns to 0 bytes size, as this error often means bad sectors, partition corruption or physical damages. Let\u2019s see causes of the 0 bytes size.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USB drive damages. There might be physical problems on the USB drive, such as circuits or boards fails to work.<\/li>\n<li>Bad sectors. USB drive also gets bad sectors causing problem in saving or reading data.<\/li>\n<li>Partition corruption. The Ppartition on the USB drive gets corrupted. More exactly, the file system is corrupted such as DBR, $MTF or FAT.<\/li>\n<li>Power failure. Abrupt power failure while disk is writing data; plug out the USB drive in an improper way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Recover data from USB flash drive showing 0 bytes size<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The best way to fix the error on flash drives is formatting it, but formatting of the flash drive will erase all data stored on it. If files are important to you, and you can go for 0 bytes file recovery too such as CuteRecovery (formerly known as EassosRecovery).\u00a0Please keep in mind, do not format the inaccessiable drive when you see the warning message from OS.<\/p>\n<p>The flash drive data recovery software will help you recover data from USB drives showing 0 bytes and it supports recovering various files including photos, music, videos, archives, Word files, Excel, PPT, PSD, ZIP, etc. This free recovery software allows you to recover data from various brands from flash disks such as Sony, Kingston, SanDisk, Hitachi, etc. Let\u2019s see steps of flash drive data recovery.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/download.php\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Launch CuteRecovery Free (formerly known as EassosRecovery Free)\u00a0and select \u201cRecover Files from Partition\u201d recovery mode.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/eassos-recovery\/manual\/img\/WholePartitionFileRecovery.png\" alt=\"USB Flash Drive Showing 0 Bytes\" width=\"900\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Select the USB flash drive and click \u201cNext\u201d button to start scanning process.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/eassos-recovery\/manual\/img\/WholePartitionFileRecovery_02.png\" alt=\"USB Flash Drive Showing 0 Bytes\" width=\"900\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: When CuteRecovery (formerly known as EassosRecovery) finishes scanning, you can preview and recover files.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/eassos-recovery\/manual\/img\/WholePartitionFileRecovery_04.png\" alt=\"USB Flash Drive Showing 0 Bytes\" width=\"900\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article posted here to explain USB flash drive showing 0 bytes issue, including symptoms, causes and solutions. It is a common problem that an SD Card\/USB Drive\/Pen Drive Shows 0 Bytes, and you can fix it and restore data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/recover-data-from-usb-flash-drive-showing-0-bytes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[506,507,508,505],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-data-recovery","tag-0-bytes","tag-0-bytes-file-recovery","tag-flash-drive-data-recovery","tag-usb-0-bytes","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}