Is there any way to recover data from a thumb drive

[antyler]

My freaking PNY jumpdrive failed, none of my computers will recognize it, i had some important school files on there, and was wondering if there was any way to recover info from them. thanks.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Dont know where this goes.

lol

 

[KLin]

yes.....this is the wrong forum. Anyways, take it apart and see if it's a common memory card (SD card for example) if it is, you may be able to use it with a memory card reader to recover the data.

 

[necine]

Originally posted by: KLin
yes.....this is the wrong forum. Anyways, take it apart and see if it's a common memory card (SD card for example) if it is, you may be able to use it with a memory card reader to recover the data.

Or buy another thumb drive... exact same model. Insert the old memory card into the new drive.

 

[antyler]

Its a clear case one, i can see it, how big would this card be, its really narrow i thought sd's and such are about twice as wide.

 

[antyler]

I dont know if mine has a removable card in it though, its the Attache model and im not sure.

 

[EyeMWing]

The attaches are notorious for flunking out. And no, the flash chip is soldered directly to the board. So you can't remove it. You lose. Back up next time.

 

[chiwawa626]

My brother had a thumbdrive die on him. I forget what brand it was, but it was definatly out of warranty (few years old), but the company recovered his data and sent him a new drive after a few emails

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
The attaches are notorious for flunking out. And no, the flash chip is soldered directly to the board. So you can't remove it. You lose. Back up next time.

I'm sure it could technically be removed.

 

[antyler]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
The attaches are notorious for flunking out. And no, the flash chip is soldered directly to the board. So you can't remove it. You lose. Back up next time.

That would have been good to know a year ago. Figures the the only files on there i didnt have anywhere else, are the school files that my teacher needs.

 

[antyler]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
My brother had a thumbdrive die on him. I forget what brand it was, but it was definatly out of warranty (few years old), but the company recovered his data and sent him a new drive after a few emails

hmm mines only a year old, if that, i wonder if i could get in touch with PNY

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
The attaches are notorious for flunking out. And no, the flash chip is soldered directly to the board. So you can't remove it. You lose. Back up next time.

Scary thing is lots of folks use these flash drives to back up their stuff! :Q

 

[Jolt2]

You could try this:

http://www.5star-shareware.com/Windows/...e-Disk-Management/eimage_recovery.html

"eIMAGE Recovery is an excellent tool that can help you recover images and files that are either lost or corrupted. This program can recover erased or damaged compact flash, smartmedia, memory sticks, mmd, XD, multimedia or secure digital memory."

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Ok, a thumb drive will show up as a Removable drive in Windows right? It will give a drive letter in My Computer, so go ahead and run regular drive recovery software that you would use for your hard drives, except select the removable disk.

I did this for my CF card which I plugged into my printer and hit recover for because it showed up as another drive. Worked pretty well =)

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
The attaches are notorious for flunking out. And no, the flash chip is soldered directly to the board. So you can't remove it. You lose. Back up next time.

I agree with this statement. When I worked at a college, we had a few people come in with this sort of issue. thumb drives are better than floppy disks by a ton, but like any other data storage they need to be backed up on a regular basis.

 

[FoBoT]

just use your back up files

 

[Vegito]

i lost a gig of data off my lexar drive.. the pc with broken usb port.. didn't know, stick it in, it fried... i was sol