Recovering full flash drive size

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I encountered a drive that someone wanted their "lost" pictures recovered from.

Maxell 2 GB flash drive.

 

Unit was showing a tiny fraction of the original size, & all format utilities & options I tried failed to recover anything, until I found out about Maxell Mode Convertor.

 

Problem is, the drive had not suffered a corrupted partition, but rather, the partitions had become flipped & the normally smaller hidden partition had become the visible & default partition, while the pictures partition had become the hidden partition & invisible to Windows.

 

Thus, nothing I did was having an affect because all they were reading or writing to was the smaller partition.

 

After running the Mode Convertor utility, I was able to successfully recover all files back.

After flipping the partition back, you should avoid long format, & wiping the drive until you have recovered your files.