Flash Drive dead

[merchant]

Hi all

I was transfering some files to my 1 gb flash drive today when the computer i was using at work decided to die on me. After i rebooted the computer it would recognise the flash drive.

When i got home just now i plugged the flash drive in to the USB and it also wouldn't recognise the drive.

Any suggestions on what i can do??

Thanks in advance.

 

[Nodsu]

"wouldn't recognise" means what?

 

[merchant]

"Recognise"

What i mean by recognise is when i plug the flash drive into the usb port nothing happens. When i open 'my computer' the drive is not listed. When i search for new hardware in 'device manager' the drive doesn't appear anywhere.

This is happening on every computer i use the flash drive on so i'm thinking its a flash drive problem. It used to work fine up unitl the crash

 

[Nodsu]

Is the drive shown in the Disk Manager? Or among the existing devices in Device Manager?

If not, then yes, the thing is dead.

 

[merchant]

By all accounts its dead. Destroy it and buy a new one. Luckily mine was still under warranty so the maker is replacing it.

 

[SNGX1275]

Flash Drive Recovery Procedures is a READ at the top of this forum. It was placed there to avoid 4 billion threads like this (there are already 3 about similar problems since I last visited here yesterday).

Read that thread, if you try what is said in that thread and your drive still doesn't work then its dead.