Damaged USB memory stick - "No media"

[xsoliman]

A collegue's daughter pulled out their USB memory stick when a file was still copying (in Windows 7)
Normally this would just result in some minor file system corruption (FAT32) and an inconsistent or damaged file

However in this case the USB memory stick became totally unusuable

Under windows the USB bridge part still shows up ok as a Removable drive
but it shows "No Media"

details of stick model etc to follow

I've not got my hands on it yet, but assume that low level reads on the drive will fail, hence nothing I can do at the logical level


Any thoughts on the viability and cost of recovery (UK based) ?

Thanks in advance

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=20230&p=135658&hilit=+no+media+#p135658
is a similar case

[hddguy]

Flash media has its own translation tables to account for bad block management, wear leveling and data distribution. I would guess that some aspect of this is damaged. Not sure if there would be some specific repair possible, but almost certainly the data can be recovered by someone with the right tool and knowledge for it.

It would be useful to know the controller it uses, can almost certainly tell you the recover-ability of it then

[einstein9]

A collegue's daughter pulled out their USB memory stick when a file was still copying (in Windows 7)
Normally this would just result in some minor file system corruption (FAT32) and an inconsistent or damaged file

However in this case the USB memory stick became totally unusuable

Under windows the USB bridge part still shows up ok as a Removable drive
but it shows "No Media"

details of stick model etc to follow

I've not got my hands on it yet, but assume that low level reads on the drive will fail, hence nothing I can do at the logical level


Any thoughts on the viability and cost of recovery (UK based) ?

Thanks in advance

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=20230&p=135658&hilit=+no+media+#p135658
is a similar case

pcimage is one of the people i know, contact him