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Memory stick data recovery.

  • 12-07-2010 6:46pm
    #1
    WH BONNEY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    My computer is unable to read my memory stick. As you can imagine the data is pretty important to me, especially since I have not backed it up :rolleyes: Are there any companies around Dublin who specialise in this data recovery ? Any other helpful advice would really be appreciated.

    Regards,

    WH


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  • #2
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,501 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    try this freeware recovery tool and see if it works for you. I used it on an SD card to get photos and it worked well.

    http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=5976&file=1&evp=7808f5754d2bbbbba2fa666e7b90d481


  • #3
    wolfric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭wolfric


    just your computer? has it worked before?


  • #4
    WH BONNEY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭WH BONNEY


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    try this freeware recovery tool and see if it works for you. I used it on an SD card to get photos and it worked well.

    http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=5976&file=1&evp=7808f5754d2bbbbba2fa666e7b90d481

    Thanks, cant get to download properly


  • #5
    WH BONNEY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭WH BONNEY


    wolfric wrote: »
    just your computer? has it worked before?

    Yeah it has worked fine before. It wont work on any computer, ive tried it on several.


  • #6
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,284 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Does it show up in explorer (assumption!) as a drive with a letter? if you try to click it/open it in a window, does it say 'this drive is not formatted' etc

    give us more information !

    there is a free program called recuva, its easy to find, but AFAIK it needs to have some partitions defined and recognizable to work. There are other programs, like GetDataBack and R-Studio, and others I'm sure (no links here....) that aren't so fussy


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  • #7
    WH BONNEY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭WH BONNEY


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Does it show up in explorer (assumption!) as a drive with a letter? if you try to click it/open it in a window, does it say 'this drive is not formatted' etc

    give us more information !

    there is a free program called recuva, its easy to find, but AFAIK it needs to have some partitions defined and recognizable to work. There are other programs, like GetDataBack and R-Studio, and others I'm sure (no links here....) that aren't so fussy

    The drive does not appear in explorer when you put in the memory stick. Neither does the light on the memory stick light up, as it should when the coputer is trying to read it. When I try another memory stick in the drive it appears in explorer and can be read without any problems.


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