Anywhere to recover data from banjaxed flash drive?

jordainius

Hi all, in a spot of bother. I'm trying to fix a flash drive (usb pen drive/memory stick) and unfortunately I have been defeated

The computer recognises the flash drive but when you click on the drive the following dialog box is returned; "Please return a disk drive into E:". No computer recognises the data on the flash drive and I've tried everything, so I need to hand it over to someone who specialises in recovering data from seemingly lost causes.

Is there anyone in Limerick who provides such a service?

Limerick Dude

Try MCS Computers on the corner of Parnell and Roches Street.

eclectichoney

This happened me recently - tried everywhere including MicroIreland who were great but no luck getting the data back.

Lesson learned the hard way :mad:

jordainius

eclectichoney wrote: »

This happened me recently - tried everywhere including MicroIreland who were great but no luck getting the data back.

Lesson learned the hard way :mad:

To be honest, I've a bad feeling this will be the outcome with me too Clutching at straws at this stage, hopefully someone out there has had a positive outcome!

Stuxnet

have you tried to mount the drive under linux, far better then windows for this kind of stuff,

you needn't install a linux OS, just burn a iso to disc, and boot your pc with it in the disc tray,

many rescue distros freely available, here's one I like http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

James McNulty

Stuxnet wrote: »

have you tried to mount the drive under linux, far better then windows for this kind of stuff,

you needn't install a linux OS, just burn a iso to disc, and boot your pc with it in the disc tray,

many rescue distros freely available, here's one I like http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

Here comes the Science Bit!:D

Enright

Liam at Limerick computers at the groudy roundabour can repair it. He can take the chip and transplant it onto a new usb - allowing for data retrieval , check out the cost first