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How can I get data off of a damaged thumb drive?

Fresh6 days ago
Mar 15, 202628765 views
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A guy I work with just came by to ask me about a damaged thumb drive/USB flash drive. Apparently his son dropped it on a hard surface and it won't power up anymore. They've tried plugging it into multiple machines without success, even though each port they tried was able to power other USB devices…

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At $500 I suspect the store would normally send the USB device to a data recovery specialist - the sort that do data recovery or forensic from magnetic media like hard drives, where they would try to access using various physical / mechanical techni…

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