Flash Drive Failure
The unthinkable happened to me yesterday.
My flash drive that holds ALL my images suddenly stopped working.
Eeek!! I paniced for about 3 hours before I finally gave up. There’s nothing that I could do in 3 hours, so there’s probably not anything that I can do after this. I do have advice for you though.
1. Back up ALL information from portable media such as flash drives, memory sticks, floppy disks, and portable hard drives onto discs. Discs have a much, much lower failure rate than these do.
2. Don’t keep your ONLY copy of important documents on a flash drive, in fact, always save it two or thee times in different places.
3. Don’t panic if this does happen… I can’t tell you how to fix it yet, because I’m still working on it, but panicing doesn’t help.
Also, I am open for advice if any of you know how to fix this.
FlowersEtc
Mine died once and it turned out to be a $5 battery (check-sum battery) I took mine to a Radio Shack that repairs computers. They cleaned mine up for $135.00 and restored only what I wanted.
I hope you find the problem.
FlowersEtc
PS- Your pictures could be loaded with to many photos
GraceNotes
There are programs you can get that may restore whatever data was on the drive or you can have it professionally done. I had a similar problem with a drive and was able to retrieve photos and other data using “Data Rescue II” – cost about $100 and it worked by finding the drive while attached to the usb port and then scanning for data. I am not sure what drive you have, but you may want to Google the drive and the problem with it. There are a lot of answers out there that may work. Good luck.