Retrieve your lost USB Pen Drive

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Monday, December 21, 2009
This article is posted in Free Softwares category and has 7 Comments so far.

USB pen driveHaving a personal USB Pen Drive has become a common phenomenon like a mobile phone nowadays. There are pretty good chances that you lose your personal USB Pen drive. You may think that nothing much could be done with the loss of this small device as the person who found it could use by just formatting the same even if you had put a whole lock.

But at the same time if he/she wants to return back the drive to you, will it not be fine if your contact details could be shown when your USB drive is plugged in ? That’s the work done exactly done by this freeware named as “Help! I’am lost!”.

Download this zipped file and extract the same in your USB pen drive. Once you unzip it you could find a folder called LostDrive. There will be three files inside the same which are named as autorun,Help.exe and readme.txt. Just copy these three files and place the same in the root of the drive, i.e., these files should not be inside any of the folders.

Also open the readme.txt using notepad and incorporate your contact details in the relevant places and save it. The files readme.txt, autorun etc., are common names. While saving these files in the pen drive you may get a notice that these files are already available and whether you want to overwrite it. You can very well overwrite the existing files. That’s it.

Want to check the utility of this softerware? Next time when your pen drive is plugged in you could see the Autoplay window which looks like this

lost drive

Select “Help! I’m Lost!” icon which is found along with “Open folder to view files” icon in the Autoplay window. You could see a message window  which will reveal the loss of your Pen drive along with your contact details.

Download Help! I’am lost! freeware


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7 Responses to “Retrieve your lost USB Pen Drive”

  1. Pawan Sobti said on Monday, December 21, 2009, 19:56

    And place the same in the root of the drive, is easily said than done .While this utility is handy enough I don’ think the author has himself/herself tried / tested and permeated the innards of a drive I wonder if there are any and talk about “root”! . I WONDER if flash/thumb memories drives are also equipped with a registry , root and kernel of their own as is in the case of Hard Disk Drives .Whatever that may be I followed only to head nowhere since registry root is unfathomable.May be higher versions i.e ; 32 /64 GB have the so called root .I am geeking now ……………………………….!!!!!!

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    admin Reply:
    December 22nd, 2009 at 8:29 am

    @Pawan Sobti
    I meant the root directory which is the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy

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  2. uday kumar said on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 12:57

    It is good. But I have some other problem. I have a Pen Drive with lot of information. When I insert in the Port, the computer does not recognise it. What is the solution to retreive the files of the pen drive. Kindly send a mail if any body have solution please….

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  3. Pawan Sobti said on Saturday, December 26, 2009, 21:06

    Thanks for response buddy but like me most others haven’t quite got as to what you meant by root in a removable drive. A detailed hierararchy in a thumb/flash//USB drive if you can showcase and care to explain then it would serve the right purpose.

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    admin Reply:
    December 26th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    @Pawan Sobti
    Keep the downloaded files (after unzipping the same) in the usb drive. My Computer —-> Removable Disc (USB Drive)

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  4. Rajagopalan V said on Monday, December 28, 2009, 5:32

    Sir, What to do when pendrive is not opening? Disk shows as full? There is some files are stored and how to retrieve using this software?

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    admin Reply:
    December 28th, 2009 at 7:33 am

    @Rajagopalan
    This software can not be used for the purpose you have pointed out.

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