To see what is happening on the bus:
Windows: http://desowin.org/usbpcap/index.html
Linux: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt

WireShark makes these pretty:
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB

Have you tried contact cleaner?
Put it someplace cold and dry for a few minutes?
Check for damaged passives or cold solder joints?

Using a general purpose NAND interface to read directly from the flash
chip will not yield useful data unless you can resolve the block map.
Datasheets for USB flash controllers are rare.  A file carver may be
your best bet, but don't expect much.

For the price of a small house, there are labs that specialize in this
sort of recovery.  Sorry I don't have better news.

Good luck!
-- 
Kenny
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On Sat, 2015-01-03 at 09:17 -0800, David Madden wrote: 
> I have an old Memorex 512MB thumb drive that had some important data on
> it.  It was working OK until a few days ago (maybe zapped in a power
> outage?)  Anyway, now the access light blinks every few seconds, but it
> doesn't enumerate on any of my machines (Mac, Windows, Linux).
> 
> Does anybody have a USB analysis tool or program that could help me
> figure out what's going on (and whether there's any chance of recovering
> the data)?
> 
> Backup, backup, backup!
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