My Flash Suddenly formatted and can't recovered!!!

[hack3rcon]

Hello.
I have a Pendrive that when I copy a file from my computer to it, My Pendrive Locked suddenly and asked me to Format it.I formatted it but I can't recover it. I never copied any files on it too and it is so odd for me. I tested some Recovery Tools like "Get Data Back" but...
Any idea to recover it?
It is a 4GB Pendrive.

Thank you.

[HaQue]

So there is files on there you need to recover?

[hack3rcon]

So there is files on there you need to recover?

Yes. Why recover program can't recover it?

[dick]

You formatted it?

[HaQue]

for the data to be stored and retrieved properly, the flash drive must be working properly. Consider the following diagram, and be in awe of the graphic skillz I possess...

possible reasons:
- some electronics failed on the PCB of the flash drive, now it doesn't work properly.
- bad connections / solder joints
- firmware of controller chip corrupt, now it doesn't work properly
- NAND Flash is faulty, now it doesn't work properly.
- The data got corrupted due to a bug in the firmware
- cheap flash / device fail
etc..

a Data recovery company might be able to unsolder chip, read it and recover files. Or try taking a disk image with DMDE, ignoring partitions and run data recovery software such as getdataback, and choose options like "ignore File Allocation Table", find lost files, "raw scan" etc

[hack3rcon]

Thank you for your useful Diagram but I can' see any option with the name "ignore File Allocation Table" in getdataback 5.2.1.

[HaQue]

Options, recovery Tab.
FAT settings: ignore FAT
FAT = File Allocation Table. I think you should try and image the disk first if the files on there are important.