Windows 10: How can I recover my thumb drive

Thumb drive used to work well before and then didn't use it for a while. But now that I insert it the machine doesn't detect any communication sound or error and I can't format it anyway.

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Can a thumb drive be disabled by malware?

There are quite a few possibilities to what happened to your thumb drive:

1. It might be a simple issue where the partition got corrupted: In this case you can go to Computer Management > Disk Management> and check out what partition your thumb drive currently has. If it currently is in RAW format or is just unallocated, I suggest you unallocate the entire drive and make a new partition. It's possible that you can recover upto 99% of your files with a tool like EaseUS DataRecovery Wizard Pro.
   
2. The malware corrupted your thumb drive's firmware: The malware that your thumb drive may have encountered may be similar to something like BadUSB. It may or may not have modified your drive's firmware to transmit malware, but in any case your thumb drive's pretty dead, and there's not much you can do about it.
   

 

Recover files on thumb drive

I have a thumb drive that had a lot of documents and photos in it. There are all gone now with just one fole remaining names "debug". When that is opened, it says: [0824/124059.844:ERROR:crash_report_database_win.cc(428)] unexpected header

What can I do to recover the lost files?