Dead USB stick - but need the data

Lil306

Screw paying £100 to recover data. Fix it yourself, it's not rocket science it's just a circuit board with 4 metal pins, open it up and squeeze it so it contacts the board again

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Do you click safely remove hardware before you pull it out?

PROLIANT

I have successfully repaired various memory sticks when they have broken free from the PCB.

If you know anyone with a good fine tip soldering iron ask them to wet the 4 pins on the back of the USB plug and the PCB inside the memory module, this should solve your problem. If you have access to a local college ask one of the lab technicians if he/she will do this for you, they are usually quite helpful.

totalsolutions

I have a Data Traveller 1Gb here and it is a bit plasticky, so very easy to open with a <insert your fav. tool here>

Brankholm, OPEN IT UP for gawd sake, £100 you must be insane. Look inside it.

Apples2

totalsolutions wrote: »

I have a Data Traveller 1Gb here and it is a bit plasticky, so very easy to open with a <insert your fav. tool here>

totalsolutions

Show that to the stick and I think it will yield!