how to get files from damaged USB stick
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You plug your flash drive into your laptop’s USB port, then panic as the dreaded message appears — “unrecognized device.” It’s such a little thing, barely an inch and a half long, maybe a quarter inch thick, yet it can hold hostage a wealth of valuable information when it crashes.
These failures are often the result of flash drive trauma — a bump, fall or drop — that damaged the connectors’ pins. Considering mobile storage devices often jangle on a key ring or slip to the bottom of a briefcase or purse, it’s a miracle that more don’t fail. However, these are tough little storage units. Your data is still in there, and over 90 percent of the time, we can retrieve it. Really, USB recovery is not a super complicated process.
If you watch our video, you’ll see flash or pen drive recovery is just a series of straightforward steps, almost like jump-starting a car:
- Open the drive and find the damaged connector pins.
- Scrape the coating from the pad areas to expose the copper beneath.
- Run steel bar wire from each pad area to pins on a new connector.
- Solder at each end.
- Attach a USB extension cord.
- Watch the board light up, and access your data.
Once you’ve seen how to recover files from a USB, you must wonder why everyone doesn't just do this for themselves. The answer lies in one word — equipment. Yes, it’s a simple process as long as you have a Hakko 936 fine soldering iron, steel bar wire, a new connector, a high-powered precision Meiji EMZ-5TR microscope and the proper USB extension connector so that you don’t damage your laptop’s motherboard when you plug in the flash drive! You also need a few incidental supplies, but a ton of knowhow is vital. An expert makes soldering look like a breeze, but nothing is worse than melting the circuit board, short-circuiting it or heat-damaging chips. Do any of these, and it’s game over.
This is why customers rely on HDD Recovery Services. For a small fee, we offer a 100-percent guarantee that we will recover your data or you pay nothing. We have all the equipment necessary for flash drive recovery, and we are willing to make the repair process transparent. You know exactly what we do, how we do it and why. You can see for yourself that what we do works.
We may be located in Ottawa, Ontario, but we are online and offer rapid-turnaround mail-in service. Within hours of receiving your flash or pen drive, we can retrieve your data and upload it to our secure cloud storage, ready for you to download. We understand how important your data is to you, so we treat every case as a top-priority emergency.
HDD Recovery Services performs thousands of flash drive repairs and has no need to be greedy. A flash drive is a small storage device for essential data, so we offer you a small flat fee of $200 and a firm guarantee: no hidden or extra charges for evaluations, expedited service or cloud access. Even better, we offer promotions and discounts every month. Best of all, blog about us, and you may even qualify for a free repair service.
We believe in doing our part to ensure everyone has access to data recovery, so we strive to keep prices low and offer discounts, especially for nonprofit organizations. Check out the rest of our website and helpful links at Look for our videos on YouTube, and when you need help, remember that all you have to do is fill out the online contact information and send your flash drives to us. We’ll see you on the cloud!