The tiny thumb-sized USB flash drives/USB sticks we use to carrying data files around in our pockets are an odd mix of both fragility and resilience. These “thumb drives” or “jump drives” can survive perilous falls that would put any spinning disk…
Our data recovery lab received an interesting case recently. On the surface, it looked like just an ordinary USB flash drive that had had its plug snapped off—the single most common form of data loss in USB flash drives. But…
Updated 1/8/2019 The tiny thumb-sized USB flash drives we use to carry data around in our pockets are an odd mix of both fragility and resilience. These “thumb drives” or “jump drives” can survive perilous falls that would put any spinning disk…
[vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The client in this data recovery case study had a USB thumb drive that no longer did anything when they plugged it in. The thumb drive was well and truly dead. Unfortunately, the client had been using…
USB Data Recovery: USB Not Recognized When you too hastily eject your USB flash drive and your PC won’t recognize it anymore, which part of the drive has failed? Mechanically, your flash drive is still fine. The USB plug itself…
A few weeks ago, a case came through Gillware’s doors related to a flash drive that was reading as 64GB in size, and yet would only save up to 8GB of data. After greater than 8GB had been written to the…
Recovery Type: Monolithic USB flash driveDevice Capacity: 8GBDevice Manufacturer: KingstonModel Name: DataTravelerModel Number: DTSE9Main Symptom: UnresponsiveType of Data: Photos and DocumentsData Recovery Grade: 10 Chip Information:Manufacturer: ToshibaID: THNU3EN00PL07 As capacities go up and costs go down for USB flash drives, people are using them to store more and more data.…
The one thing USB flash drive recovery had going for it was easy direct access to the underlying storage medium. Inside the casing of that USB thumb drive or camera card is an industry-standard NAND flash memory chip. Whereas hard disk platters can…
