Help! Flash drive not recognized!

Laurence wrote on 11/29/2014, 11:20 AM

I have a brand new (from woot.com) 128GB flash drive which contains the only copy of some video and stills I shot at a Thanksgiving event the other day. I plugged it in today to back up the files and the flash drive itself is not recognized. Even in the disk management, it is like there is nothing even plugged in. Is there any way to recover this? I am going to have some people very mad at me if there isn't.

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/29/2014, 11:51 AM

If Windows isn't seeing it at all then try plugging it in to a different computer. Just to be safe, get an apology ready.

Laurence wrote on 11/29/2014, 12:16 PM

I've tried several computers as well as Android and Apple tablets. Nothing is even recognizing that anything is even plugged in. My guess is that there is a hardware problem (failure after just several hours) and that no recovery utilities. I could probably rescue the day's work with a recovery service. So much for getting a good deal on this piece of junk!

Chienworks wrote on 11/29/2014, 5:17 PM

CD Roller claims to have a feature for recovering data from unreadable cards.

http://cdroller.com/

I haven't tried the new version that has this feature, but i have used older versions to recover many CDs/DVDs that were thought to be irretrievably lost. It's well worth the $39.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/29/2014, 5:25 PM

I'd say it depends on why it's not reading the drive. Just for the heck of it, reboot it with it hooked up. If you have any autodetect on your MB it should say if it sees something there.