Hey, I've been given a faulty usb drive in need of some attention. Basically it contains my friends essays for her universirty course. I do not need the drive to be fixed as such just need it to recover the data. I have opened it up and have resoldered all the points to guarantee a connection. I have used a magnifiying glass and can 100% assure you that there is connection. When you plug the USB drive into a computer the red light on the usb stick lights up however nothing happens on the computer. Im really stumped for ideas. Im willing to try anything. I also have a spare working usb drive ready to take apart for spares! Any help would be soo much appreciated! Thanks Lecsiy
Resoldered all the joints to guarantee a (thermal) connection to a cooked flash RAM chip... Probably the flash memory chip had died before you even attacked it with a soldering iron, so it didn't suffer. (Let us hope) Was the soldering iron a temperature controlled, low voltage, grounded type? Anyway, kiss the data goodbye.
