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This page contains information about installing the latest driver downloads Silicon Power USB flash drive using the Silicon Power Driver Update Tool.

Silicon Power USB Flash Drive drivers are tiny programs that enable your USB Flash Drive hardware to communicate with your operating system software. Keeping Silicon Power USB Flash Drive software updated prevents crashes and maximizes hardware and system performance. Using outdated or corrupt Silicon Power USB Flash Drive drivers may cause system errors, failures and failure of equipment or computer. Moreover, installing the wrong Silicon Power drivers can make these problems worse.

Advice: If you are inexperienced with updating Silicon Power device drivers manually, we highly recommend downloading the Silicon Power USB Flash Drive Driver Utility. This tool will automatically download and update the correct Silicon Power USB Flash Drive drivers, preventing you from installing the wrong USB Flash Drive drivers.

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If your flash drive is not detected by the computer or files disappear on it, you can try to restore its functionality. In this article, we will talk about SP USB Flash Drive Recovery Software. That is, we will tell you what programs you can use to try to restore the drive.

Important: It is not always possible to restore or overwrite lost information. All of the methods below for repairing Silicone Power flash drives allow you to “revive” them, but not to recreate the data.

Method 1. SP USB Flash Drive Recovery Software

An official application that automatically detects the model of a flash drive connected to a PC and finds the appropriate software for its recovery on SP servers.

Only when you choose where to scan for deleted or damaged files, select the “On my media card” option (this is step 2). If the card is not detected or no files are found on it, start the whole process again.

Only now select the “In a specific location” option and specify your removable drive according to its letter. By the way, you can find it out if you go to “My Computer” (or simply “Computer”, “This Computer” - it all depends on the version of Windows).
using Recuva

Method 6: Flash Drive Recovery

This is also a universal program that is suitable for most modern models of removable storage media. Flash Drive Recovery is not developed by Silicon Power and is not listed among the recommended utilities on the manufacturer's website.

But, judging by user reviews, it is extremely effective in working with flash drives from this manufacturer.

Its usage looks like this:

Install and run it on your computer. The site has two buttons according to operating system versions. Select yours and click on the appropriate button. Then everything is quite standard.

In the first step, select the desired media, click on it and click the “Scan” button at the bottom of the program window.

After this, the scanning process will begin. In the largest field you can see all the files and folders available for recovery. On the left there are two more fields - the results of a quick and deep scan.

There may also be folders and files that can be recovered.

To do this, highlight required file check mark and click the “Restore” button in the lower right corner of the open window.

Except Recuva File Recovery and Flash Drive Recovery can be used to recover data from damaged media

24.03.2017

Almost every person carries with him a USB drive on which various documents, photos or audio recordings are stored. Sometimes it happens that the flash drive is not displayed in Windows or does not allow you to write new information. Similar errors often occur on drives with two memory chips. U famous company Silicon Power flash drives for 16, 32, 64 GB sometimes become unreadable on the computer or the message appears "Disk is write protected". Such problems can be easily eliminated with special programs.

Causes and symptoms of an error

In total, there are 5 reasons that may cause the device to malfunction:

• logical errors;
• physical damage to parts;
• electrical overload and overheating of the carrier;
• Damage to the memory controller firmware;
• NAND memory wear or failure.

Logical errors appear when:

• incorrect formatting;
• sudden removal of the device during information exchange;
• using the wrong one file system.

At physical damage, overheating or an unexpected power surge most often damages the contacts on the board. They can be restored by soldering. But if the microcontroller is damaged, it cannot be repaired.

In case of violation logic program controller, the following problems are observed on the flash drive:

• not detected on the computer (there is a connection sound, but the disk is not displayed);
• prohibition on recording new data;
• no disk access;
• The drive size is specified incorrectly.

To restore the device's functionality, you will need to reflash the microcontroller. But after performing this operation, all data from the disk will be irretrievably lost.

Method 1: SP Toolbox

Branded programs are most effective for restoring Silicon Power drives. SP Toolbox combines various components for flash drive diagnostics.

After diagnostics are completed, you can begin to restore the media.

Method 2: D-soft Flash Doctor

As a rule, it is stored on flash drives important information, which I would not like to delete. To avoid losing it, you can create a disk image. D-soft Flash Doctor allows you to scan drives, create and burn disk images. The software also allows you to restore a flash drive; for this, a full format is performed.

To perform a restore, follow the instructions:

1. Select the damaged disk.
2. Click "Recover media".

Method 3: SP G50 FW Update Program

To update the Silicon Power firmware, a special utility SP G50 FW Update Program has been created; it can be downloaded from the official website. Find the section on the page "USB drives" and click download.

The software is downloaded in an archive, which contains an .EXE file and English instructions for use. After launching the application, a window with a simple interface will appear.

In the main window it says that before clicking the button "Update" must be done backup copy data, since all files will disappear after flashing. It will be impossible to restore the information.

1. Launch the program.
2. Insert the Silicon Power flash drive.
3. In the window "Device" The device letter will appear.
4. If a window appears "Conductor" Windows, then be sure to close it.
5. Click "Update".

Wait for the process to complete. Typically this takes about 1 minute. After updating the firmware, you can continue to use the device for its intended purpose. If you did it before backup, then restore the data.

Method 4: Formatting and checking for errors

If the drive has previously been written to a third-party OS such as Ubuntu, Kali Linux etc., then quite often after this a problem arises with recognizing the flash drive. This error is due to data formatting features in Windows and Linux.

If the drive is detected in the system, but errors like "Access denied", "USB device not recognized" etc., then check the flash drive for errors. For this:

If the errors have not been corrected, then format the drive as FAT32 or NTFS.

First, try formatting the media as FAT32; if that doesn’t help, then use NTFS.

Method 5: Diskmgmt.msc

Sometimes incorrect reading can occur due to assigning the same letters to different drives. To fix this error:

The above steps allow you to restore the Silicon Power flash drive. To prevent errors in the operation of the media in the future, try not to interrupt USB operation device while recording or deleting information. To restore the media, in addition to proprietary programs from Silicon Power, you can use third party software, however, it rarely turns out better utilities from manufacturers.

Today we will look at:

USB drives from Silicon Power have a simple and elegant design. By purchasing such a stylish product, we hope that the miniature storage media will last quite a long time.

It is very unpleasant when flash drives unexpectedly fail, while the drive contains valuable information that was not duplicated. According to customer reviews, 16 GB USB drives from Silicon Power are the most vulnerable to logical errors and physical influences. Don’t despair right away; in most cases, you can restore the performance of the storage device and save the information.

Signs that a USB device has failed and needs to be repaired or restored

• Flush is periodically or not detected at all.
• When turned on, it is detected as a connected device, but a message is displayed that it is not recognized operating system(unknown device).
• Inability to perform file access, read or write operations, and messages are displayed: “no access to the disk”, “disk is write protected”, “insert disk”, “file or folder is damaged. Reading is impossible."
• Defined as media with reduced or zero memory capacity.
• The message “Before you can use the disk in the G:\ drive, you must format it. Format?" After several tries, it turns out that "Windows cannot complete formatting."

Causes of malfunctions

• Logical – incorrect formatting, deleting and removing a device while recording, transferring or downloading information, incorrect use of a flash drive when watching movies on TV, file system failure.
• Mechanical - shocks, falls, etc.
• Thermal and electrical – static electricity discharges, power instability during power surges and overheating.
• Software and hardware malfunctions in the operation of electronic parts of flash drives.
• Damage or removal of the driver program for device recognition by the operating system.
• , written specifically to deliberately remove or distort information.

Solutions for restoring flash drives

Upon restoration of functionality USB drives It should be taken into account that in most cases this results in a complete loss of the data recorded on them.

In case of serious logical errors in the file system, the knowledge of computer specialists is needed.

In case of mechanical, thermal and electrical impacts and destruction, the device is usually not suitable for use. However, if only the body of the flash drive is damaged, there is a possibility of recovering the information in service centers.

The “driver” program can be reinstalled by downloading it from the manufacturers’ official website using the link Silicon Power drivers.

As in the previous case, the program is launched without installation through the executable file “RecoveryTool (.exe)”. Screenshot of the start and scanning start screen:

Before scanning begins, a warning is displayed stating that while the program is running there is a risk of losing data from the media. By clicking on Start, the process of restoring the flash drive begins.

SoftOrbits Flash Drive Recovery is a program for recovering information from flash drives after repeated formatting. You can download the trial version from the official website softorbits.com.

The program must first be installed. The launch is carried out through the executable file “frecover (.exe)”. The screenshots below show the startup processes trial version programs where you select the media to scan, select files for recovery, hard drive space for recording them, as well as a preview window for the recovered information:

To obtain final recovery results, you must purchase a registered version of the program on the Softorbits website.

Controller firmware

If using the above software does not produce the expected results, there is more difficult option recovery of flash media is the so-called “controller firmware”. This option is to use special utilities to recover hardware failures of a specific type of flash media using known unique USB identifiers devices – VID and PID.

Upon careful examination of the operating window USB programs Flash Drive Recovery described above, you can see that the VID and PID values ​​are automatically recognized during operation. If these numbers are entered into the database of identifiers of known flash drives on the Iflash website , It’s easy to find in the table the model of your flash drive from the manufacturer Silicon Power and a utility for restoring it (“flashing”).

Experiments along the way of using various options for restoring the functionality of your flash drive will certainly lead to the desired results and pleasant personal discoveries.

In our world, almost everything breaks and Silicon Power flash drives are no exception. The damage is very easy to notice. In some cases, some files begin to disappear from your storage device. Sometimes the drive simply ceases to be detected by the computer or any other device (it happens that it is detected by the computer, but not detected by the phone, or vice versa). Also, the memory card can be detected, but not opened, and so on.

In any case, it is necessary to restore the flash drive so that it can be used again. Unfortunately, in most cases you will not be able to recover any information and it will be permanently deleted. But after this, the USB drive can again be fully used and information can be written to it without fear that it will be lost somewhere. It is worth noting that removable media from Silicon Power very rarely last long after restoration; they still have to be replaced.

You can restore Silicon Power removable media using the programs that the company itself released. Besides this, there is something else software, which helps in this matter. We will analyze proven methods that have been tested by users from all over the world.

Method 1: Silicon Power Recover Tool

The first and most famous utility from Silicon Power. It has only one purpose - to fix damaged flash drives. Silicon Power Recover Tool works with removable media with Innostor IS903, IS902 and IS902E, IS916EN, and IS9162 series controllers. Its use is extremely simple and looks like this:

Method 2: SP ToolBox

The second proprietary program, which includes as many as 7 instruments. We only need two of them. To use Silicon Power ToolBox to recover your media, do the following:

The program can now be closed.

Method 3: SP USB Flash Drive Recovery Software

The third program from the manufacturer, which recovers flash drives from Silicon Power with great success. In fact, it performs the same process that users usually do using the iFlash service. Read about what it is and how to use it in the lesson on restoring Kingston flash drives.

Meaning of use of this service is to find the desired program and use it to restore the flash drive. The search is carried out using parameters such as VID and PID. So, USB Flash Drive Recovery independently determines these parameters and finds the required program on Silicon Power servers. Its usage looks like this:

Using this tool also does not make it possible to save the data contained in the drive’s memory.

Method 4: SMI MPTool

This program works with Silicon Motion controllers, which are installed in most Silicon flash drives Power. SMI MPTool differs in that it performs low-level recovery of damaged media. You can use it as follows:

1. program and run it from the archive.
2. Click on the button Scan USB" to start scanning your computer for a suitable flash drive. After this, your media should appear on one of the ports (column " Items"on the left). Click on it in this column to highlight it. Actually, if nothing happens, it means that the program is not suitable for your carrier.
3. Next, click the “ Debug" If a window appears asking you to enter a password, enter the number 320.
4. Now click the button Start" and wait for the recovery to complete.

In some cases, it helps if you do the above steps several times. In any case, it's worth a try. But, again, don’t expect data to be saved.

Method 5: Recuva File Recovery

Finally, we have reached a method that allows us to restore at least part of the damaged information. Only then will it be possible to restore the functionality of the device itself using one of the utilities described above. Recuva File Recovery is not SP's own development, but for some reason it is owned by this company. It is worth saying that this is not the same program that is familiar to all of us. All this only means that Recuva will be the most effective in working with flash drives from Silicon Power.

To take advantage of its capabilities, read the lesson on our website.

Only when you choose where you want to scan for deleted or damaged files, select the option " On my media card"(this is step 2). If the card is not detected or no files are found on it, start the whole process again. Only now select the option “ In a specific location" and specify your removable media according to its letter. By the way, you can find it out if you go to “ My computer"(or simply " Computer», « This computer" - it all depends on the version of Windows).

Method 6: Flash Drive Recovery

This is also a universal program that is suitable for most modern models of removable storage media. Flash Drive Recovery is not developed by Silicon Power and is not listed among the recommended utilities on the manufacturer's website. But, judging by user reviews, it is extremely effective in working with flash drives from this manufacturer. Its usage looks like this:

In addition to Recuva File Recovery and Flash Drive Recovery, you can use TestDisk, R.saver and other utilities to recover data from damaged media. The most effective such programs are listed on our website.

After the recovery of lost data has been completed, use one of the above utilities to restore the functionality of the entire drive. You can also use the standard Windows tool to check disks and fix errors. How to do this is shown in the recovery lesson Transcend flash drives(method 6).

Finally, you can format your removable media using other programs or the same standard means Windows. As for the latter, you need to do the following:

1. In the window " Computer» (« My computer», « This computer") right-click on your flash drive. In the drop-down menu, select “ Format…».
2. When the formatting window opens, click on the " Begin" If it doesn’t help, start the process again, but uncheck the box next to “ Quick…».

Also try using other disk formatting programs. The best of them are listed on our website. And if this doesn’t help, we won’t recommend anything other than buying a new media.