windows 7 laptop not recognising old usb memory stick

brightonman123

any ideas how to recover / find if any data on it?

debitcardmayhem

Do you have a system where it was created ? or could you be more specific about "not recognised" plus what make of stick is it?

henm2

Try and use Parted Magic Version 2013_09_26 (costs £3-00) from www.partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads
There are various recovery utilities on it including Recuva and PhotoRec.
Best to put Parted Magic on a spare USB flash drive using a utility called Rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie/ and boot from that drive and then use any of the relevant recovery utilities available on it. I have had success previously with it locating and recovering files off various drives including USB flash drives.

debitcardmayhem

henm2 wrote: »

Try and use Parted Magic Version 2013_09_26 (costs £3-00) from http://partedmagic.comdoku.php?id=downloads.
There are various recovery utilities on it including Recuva.
Best to put Parted Magic on a spare USB flash drive using a utility called Rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie/ and boot from that drive and then use any of the relevant recovery utilities available on it. I have had success previously with it locating and recovering files off various drives including USB flash drives.

Sounds like a spam post but hey what do I know, if the disk is available or not, get http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download if you can get it to be recognised , this is free not £3.00 also recuva is free too . Answer my first post first then go ahead and pay £3.00 for free utilities..
Edited also check out http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

brightonman123

i plug it in, but not listed in 'My Computer'- just the usual c hard drive, & dvd..

I found stick at bottom of a drawer, so no idea how old / what system was used to load it up!

NiftyDigits

henm2 wrote: »

Try and use Parted Magic Version 2013_09_26 (costs £3-00) from www.partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads
There are various recovery utilities on it including Recuva and PhotoRec.
Best to put Parted Magic on a spare USB flash drive using a utility called Rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie/ and boot from that drive and then use any of the relevant recovery utilities available on it. I have had success previously with it locating and recovering files off various drives including USB flash drives.

Why bother to pay when you can download the utilities yourself for nothing?

henm2

All previous versions of Parted Magic were free. I only suggested it as I know it is good.
Parted Magic is linux based. Other good linux distros which can be used for recovery purposes include Puppy Linux and also SystemRescueCd. They are free.