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USB memory stick is dead - can it be fixed?

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HardyOne

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A friend gave me an 8Gb memory stick (a Geek Squad brand) that has some valuable information from school that he would like to have back. When I put it in my computer (I tried it in 3 computers), it is not recognized at all. I even downloaded two separate repair programs, but they do not see it either, so cannot do any repairs. Anybody have any ideas? I thought about booting into Linux, but if it's not found using Windows, it probably won't work with Linux either. BTW, the two OS that I tried are XP Pro-32 and Win 7-64
 
I was able to fix one dead USB memory stick. I used a thermal treatment ;) remember that guy who was able to fix his vid card by putting it in the oven? well something similar

first you pre heat the oven, remove the plastic casing from your memory stick, then it's time for memory stick baking!!! I put mine around inside the oven for 5 minutes, then remove it and let it cool off. The next day I try to test it by plugging it in the PC, but it didn't work, but after a week I tried again and it work!! I just had to reformat it and it was all good!!

After that I haven't tried recovering the data out of the fixed memory stick, I dunno it could've worked.
If that data is really important for you, you should consider going to a professional data recovery company
 
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