Flash cards have made it very easy to store volumes of internet data that would have formerly fitted on a huge number of floppy disks. The downside though is when the flash device is deleted or formatted then your data recovery process has more files to find. This article examines how file recovery software is capable of finding your files and indicates some of the nuances of flash memory.

The big a valuable thing about flash based devices is that they use exactly the same FAT 32 file system common to many internal hard disk drives and other varieties of external storage devices. This means they must have a file allocation table (FAT), master boot record plus a boot sector.

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