Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me, whilst I'm newly registered to this forum and fairly new to data recover I'm no stranger to IT and SMD rework.
I've been passed an 8GB Lexar drive that had sustained damage to the plastic casing. It has subsequently been wiggled about in a USB slot to try and get it to work.
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The controller was only partly soldered to the PCB, so I reflowed it with hot air, checked the few SMD components, soldered on a USB socket and plugged it in.
The drive is recognised and installed and given a drive letter but shows No Media under device manager.
After doing some searching online, I get the impression it's possibly something to do with the controller and have run ChipGenius and get the following output.
Description: [E:]USB Mass Storage Device(USB MEMORY BAR)
Device Type: Mass Storage Device
Protocal Version: USB 2.00
Current Speed: High Speed
Max Current: 100mA
USB Device ID: VID = 090C PID = 3000
Device Vendor: Silicon Motion,Inc.
Device Name: SM3255AA MEMORY BAR
Device Revision: 0100
Product Model: USB MEMORY BAR
Product Revision: 1000
Controller Vendor: SMI
Controller Part-Number: SM3257ENLT - ISP NONE
Flash ID code: 44444444 - 2CE/Single Channel [MLC] -> Total Capacity = 8GB
Tools on web: http://dl.mydigit.net/special/up/smi.html
I have followed the link at the bottom to some tools that suggest they reprogram the controller. I have downloaded a couple, and whilst i've tried to understand via Google translate how they work, they don't seem to detect this drive.
Am I going in the right direction with this software ? should I be doing something else ? or shall I go to my plan B, which was buy an identical drive and swap the flash chips over ?
Many thanks. Michael