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Offline Axon

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Dead USB stick
« on: April 16, 2012, 02:48:51 pm »
I have a 16GB Sony usb stick, it went dead on Saturday for no reason. When I say dead I mean the PC doesn't identify it at all, is there any way I can retrieve the data from it.
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Re: Dead USB stick
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2012, 04:50:21 pm »
did you try plugging it into another computer to make sure the usb port you're plugging it into isn't messed up?
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Re: Dead USB stick
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2012, 04:58:32 pm »
Yeah most likely your USB port went dead. Flash drives don't go dead just like that.
If it has, then I don't think you can do anything about it :D your data is lost...
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Re: Dead USB stick
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2012, 06:32:20 pm »
Quote from: dataspy on April 16, 2012, 04:50:21 pm
did you try plugging it into another computer to make sure the usb port you're plugging it into isn't messed up?


Quote from: Kulverstukas on April 16, 2012, 04:58:32 pm
Yeah most likely your USB port went dead. Flash drives don't go dead just like that.
If it has, then I don't think you can do anything about it :D  your data is lost...



I've tried it on 5 different computers. Nothing happened  :(






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Re: Dead USB stick
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2012, 07:26:58 pm »
I would say reference this article: http://www.recovermyflashdrive.com/articles/how-flash-drives-fail and try to troubleshoot from there.
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