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hapigokelli
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 Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:19 pm Post subject: USB Repair? |
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My USB, with a year of lesson plans, power points, activities, videos, etc. broke on Monday.
I didn't have a back up.
Yeah, I know, i'm an idiot.
I can see what part of it is broken, it just needs a connection soldered back together.
Does anyone know of a place I could take it to get fixed?
Or does anyone have the skills and tools to fix it/extract the data? I'll pay. |
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Skippy
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Wrong forum buddy!
What have you tried! Does it connect when you plug it in! Or do you plug it an nothing? Does the computer try and connect and give a fail?
The more details the better we can help.
Consider also in the future trying DROPBOX instead of a USB drive for documents. |
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hapigokelli
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| It doesnt connect. Nothing happens. Meh. |
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Artris
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| hapigokelli wrote: |
| It doesnt connect. Nothing happens. Meh. |
Some (obvious) things to try:
1. Contacts clean? Take a look at the connection end of the USB drive. Make sure that the contacts (metal plates inside the connection) are clean.
2. Upside down? Make sure you are plugging it in the right way.
3. Different port? Could be the port on the computer is damaged. Try another USB port.
4. Different computer? Maybe it is a computer problem. Try a different computer.
All very obvious, but worth checking. If the above fails, especially trying another computer after checking contacts, then you'll either have to be very technically inclined or hire a data recovery specialist.
With hard drives it is usually possible to replace the controller or even transfer the physical disks to another drive for at least partial data recovery. The same principal *can* apply here depending on the type of damage done to the drive.
Much like a hard drive, a usb drive has a controller circuit and the actual storage medium. Typically it (was) nand flash in the past. It is quite possible things have changed and they now use more a soc type system, though unlikely. Your problem sounds like a controller problem so the data is likely still in tact, simply inaccessible. Nand flash is relatively easy to replace without the proper tools, but rather difficult to transfer.
In the end it depends on how much data you lost and how important it is to you. |
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Maud Kepz
Joined: 04 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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What kind of drive is it? Solid or spinning disk?
Spinning disc is much easier to repair/recover. Either way I can do either. Please post a picture of the damage. |
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hapigokelli
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Maud Kepz
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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are the pads from the PCB lifted from the board? or has the wire that goes to the pad from the port snapped?
The photo's too small to see the damage. |
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