How to Recover Data from USB Pen Drive If It Has Been Stuck?

Deepti Tripathi
3 min readJul 5, 2024

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Try Error Checking Windows Tool

Error checking is a useful tool built into Windows that can help you find and fix problems on your computer’s hard drives, USB drives, pen drives, memory cards, and other storage devices. If you ever have trouble accessing your files or Windows reports errors with your drives, you can use this tool to try to fix the issues.

How Can I Access Error Checking?

1. Open File Explorer with Windows + E

2. Click this PC from the left panel.

3. Right click and select drive properties which drive you want to scan.

4. On the pop-up interface, switch on Tools.

5. ‘Error checking’, click on the ‘Check’ button to check.

6. Click Scan and Repair Drive button to fix USB drive errors.

What Happens If USB Drive Error Checking Stuck at 0%, 10%, 70% or 100%?

Have you ever experienced a situation where your computer gets stuck while trying to check for errors on a pen drive?

This can happen at different percentages, like 0%, 10%, 70%, or 100%. It occurs when there are issues with the USB pen drive that the error-checking tool can’t fix. Outdated USB device drivers can also cause this problem. If you want to complete USB pen drive data recovery, which is incomplete for any reason, you should use a professional pen drive data recovery tool.

Run CHKDSK

CHKDSK checks disk errors in Windows. Find and fix drive errors with /f. Run the /r parameter to find bad sectors and recover readable data.

Stage 1: Search CMD in the search box.

Stage 2: Right-clicking the search result open and run Command Prompt as administrator.

Stage 3: Using Command Prompt, type check *: /f /r (replace * with the target USB drive letter) and press Enter to repair the USB drive.

Stage 4: Wait till the process completes.

Upgrade or Reinstall Pen Drive Driver

To update or reinstall the driver for a USB device on your computer, follow these steps:

Stage 1: Right-click the Start button and select Device Manager.

Stage 2: Expand Disk drives, then right-click the pen drive.

If you want to update the USB device driver, choose Update Driver and follow the on-screen instructions.

If you want to reinstall the pen drive driver, choose Uninstall Device and click Uninstall to confirm. After that, restart your computer, and Windows will automatically install the latest version of the driver.

Let’s Take a Move and Recover Pen Drive Lost Data

BLR Tools claims success with a wide range of file types, from documents and photos to videos and emails. Download and install the BLR pen drive data recovery tool onto a different drive than the one you are trying to recover data from. Follow the instructions of the BLR Tools carefully. Once you have recovered your data, save it to a different drive to avoid overwriting the recovered data.

Are you ready, Know the steps. How to access BLR Tools to complete your pen drive data recovery:

Step 1: Install and run BLR Tools at your OS

Step 2: Agree all the terms of BLR Tools

Step 3: Select the external drive on which you want to recover lost data.

Step 4: Start the scanning process again and wait until the pen drive is not scanned completely.

Step 5: Next, preview your pen drive’s whole data. Then create a filter and search for the file format you want to recover.

Step 6: Here you see the process stuck, because software wants the license key for recovery. You have to purchase a key for pen drive data recovery.

Note: The estimated price of a license key is $39. But another good news for you. BLR Tools offers coupon code.

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Deepti Tripathi
Deepti Tripathi

Written by Deepti Tripathi

I work as a Product Consultant. When it comes to MS Outlook and Office 365, I write about the newest tech tips and offer unique solutions.

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