How to recover data from defective flash drives

Hello Group
I had one flash drive that is not recognized anymore if inserted in
any PC USB Slot,...meaning that is malfunctioning.
Is there a way to recover the data from it?
TIA
Roy

Roy wrote:
> Hello Group
> I had one flash drive that is not recognized anymore if inserted in
> any PC USB Slot,...meaning that is malfunctioning.
> Is there a way to recover the data from it?
> TIA
> Roy
If it was mine, I would open it up, and check it
with a magnifying glass.
Often it is a bad connection from the usb connector
to the printed circuit.
Bend the pins back into shape, and/or resolder them,
might restore it to temporary health.

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:40:08 +0200, Sjouke Burry
<burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnlll> wrote:

>Roy wrote:
>> Hello Group
>> I had one flash drive that is not recognized anymore if inserted in
>> any PC USB Slot,...meaning that is malfunctioning.
>> Is there a way to recover the data from it?
>> TIA
>> Roy
>If it was mine, I would open it up, and check it
>with a magnifying glass.
>Often it is a bad connection from the usb connector
>to the printed circuit.
>Bend the pins back into shape, and/or resolder them,
>might restore it to temporary health.

Agreed, that is a weak point in many of them, though before
tearing it open it might be good to try it on another system
just in case it's the system not the drive that's to blame.

As for last resorts, a good data recovery service should be
able to get the data off, if it's still held in the flash
chip but of course that could cost quite a bit though I
couldn't even guess a ballpark figure beyond hundreds of
dollars or more.

On Jun 5, 11:34*am, kony <s...@spam.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:40:08 +0200, Sjouke Burry
>
> <burrynulnulf...@ppllaanneett.nnlll> wrote:
> >Roy wrote:
> >> Hello Group
> >> I had one flash drive that is not recognized anymore if inserted in
> >> any PC USB Slot,...meaning that is malfunctioning.
> >> Is there a way to recover the data from it?
> >> TIA
> >> Roy
> >If it was mine, I would open it up, and check it
> >with a magnifying glass.
> >Often it is a bad connection from the usb connector
> >to the printed circuit.
> >Bend the pins back into shape, and/or resolder them,
> >might restore it to temporary health.
>
> Agreed, that is a weak point in many of them, though before
> tearing it open it might be good to try it on another system
> just in case it's the system not the drive that's to blame.
>
> As for last resorts, a good data recovery service should be
> able to get the data off, if it's still held in the flash
> chip but of course that could cost quite a bit though I
> couldn't even guess a ballpark figure beyond hundreds of
> dollars or more.

Thanks for the tips Sjouke Burry and Kony, but would like some
clarification what doyou mean by another system...do you mean another
PC run by a different OS ?

On Jun 5, 7:19 am, Roy <royba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 5, 11:34 am, kony <s...@spam.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:40:08 +0200, Sjouke Burry
>
> > <burrynulnulf...@ppllaanneett.nnlll> wrote:
> > >Roy wrote:
> > >> Hello Group
> > >> I had one flash drive that is not recognized anymore if inserted in
> > >> any PC USB Slot,...meaning that is malfunctioning.
> > >> Is there a way to recover the data from it?
> > >> TIA
> > >> Roy
> > >If it was mine, I would open it up, and check it
> > >with a magnifying glass.
> > >Often it is a bad connection from the usb connector
> > >to the printed circuit.
> > >Bend the pins back into shape, and/or resolder them,
> > >might restore it to temporary health.
>
> > Agreed, that is a weak point in many of them, though before
> > tearing it open it might be good to try it on another system
> > just in case it's the system not the drive that's to blame.
>
> > As for last resorts, a good data recovery service should be
> > able to get the data off, if it's still held in the flash
> > chip but of course that could cost quite a bit though I
> > couldn't even guess a ballpark figure beyond hundreds of
> > dollars or more.
>
> Thanks for the tips Sjouke Burry and Kony, but would like some
> clarification what doyou mean by another system...do you mean another
> PC run by a different OS ?

The first question is on what OS did you check it ?

If you run some flavor of Linux distribution please provide the output
of lsusb.
If it is recognized then your usb chip works (the problem is
software) :
you can copy the stick using dd comand.

My guess is that your filesystem (on the stick) is malfunctioning
that can be fixed .

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:19:14 -0700 (PDT), Roy
<roybasan@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Jun 5, 11:34*am, kony <s...@spam.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:40:08 +0200, Sjouke Burry
>>
>> <burrynulnulf...@ppllaanneett.nnlll> wrote:
>> >Roy wrote:
>> >> Hello Group
>> >> I had one flash drive that is not recognized anymore if inserted in
>> >> any PC USB Slot,...meaning that is malfunctioning.
>> >> Is there a way to recover the data from it?
>> >> TIA
>> >> Roy
>> >If it was mine, I would open it up, and check it
>> >with a magnifying glass.
>> >Often it is a bad connection from the usb connector
>> >to the printed circuit.
>> >Bend the pins back into shape, and/or resolder them,
>> >might restore it to temporary health.
>>
>> Agreed, that is a weak point in many of them, though before
>> tearing it open it might be good to try it on another system
>> just in case it's the system not the drive that's to blame.
>>
>> As for last resorts, a good data recovery service should be
>> able to get the data off, if it's still held in the flash
>> chip but of course that could cost quite a bit though I
>> couldn't even guess a ballpark figure beyond hundreds of
>> dollars or more.
>
>Thanks for the tips Sjouke Burry and Kony, but would like some
>clarification what doyou mean by another system...do you mean another
>PC run by a different OS ?


Another PC - could be same OS or different OS, that doesn't
matter so long as the other PC has demonstrated that it can
use USB removable storage and supports the filesystem on the
drive.