Re: USB Data Recovery - any suggestions?

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Partially agree, which is why I said use them merely for file transfer.
But then you probably have more experience with data loss problems

"Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Cerussatus" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The title says it all i guess.

One minute it was working, then next minute it wasnt.

The Flash drive is a 16GB USB 2.0 made by ByteStor. I have poked around
various places, but no software ive come across works - so far.

It is recognized by any PC I shove it into as a drive of some sort -
But it cant be accessed, whilst claiming it has no space or storage.

If anyone has any suggestions, post them. It contains my college work
which I decided to skip updating after 3 months because I was too tired.
Now im paying the price.

Cerussatus out.


"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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Flash drives have a finite lifecycle, particulary cheap ones
They should not be used as a data store, simply as a means of moving data
Your next point of call would be a data recovery specialist, most of
which operate on a no recovery no fee basis - be prepared to pay plenty,
if they can help
BTW The new solid state drives will cause even bigger problems with
recovery, if they fail


And not only "cheap ones". We've encountered so many loss-of-data problems
with a wide variety of flash drives (at all price levels) that we advise
users not to store "mission-critical" data on these devices unless they're
also backed up to a CD or HDD or even another flash drive. There's no
question that these flash drives are handy devices on a day-to-day basis,
but we strongly recommend redundant backups for important documents,
photos, etc.
Anna



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