We've had some luck with the PC Inspector software. We've also messed around with taking off any of the plastic covers, but of course each situation is different.
>>> "Carl Houseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/21/2008 9:09 PM >>> Do you hear the USB chime when you connect or disconnect the device? If you said NO, your procedure is: 1. Pick up USB drive 2. Deposit in trash can A "bad slot" incident with that result is electrical damage and beyond conventional "corrupt data" recovery techniques. Carl From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lenny Bensman Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: USB flashdrive recovery. Good PM, A classmate of mine inserted his USB drive key into a "bad slot" and since then none of the computers can see the drive when inserted. I wanted to attempt recovery (we have some documents on it for class project for which we don't have a second copy). I wanted to attempt to try and recover the data on his drive, but never really tried to recover USB flash drives; only regular harddrives. What utility(-ies) and procedures would you recommend to use to attempt to recover the contents. He pretty much said his good-byes and paid his respects to the contents, so professional recovery is out of scope. This one is more of a "freebie bonus" if I can manage to recover it for him. Thanks, Lenny ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
