They can fail, and when I’m called in it’s usually because the failure happened at a bad time. They’re small and convenient, but as I mentioned earlier, they’re not reliable. Back up your filesįlash drives are great. After spending a long night trying various tools and strategies, I wasn’t able to recover much of anything for him.īefore I show you how to recover files from a dead flash drive, I want to save you the trouble to begin with.
When my mother-in-law’s hard drive died a few weeks after the warranty had expired, I was able to get everything off the drive. Sometimes the drive is stone dead and with the exception of paying for an expensive data recovery service, the files are gone. This isn’t the first time I’ve been asked to do data recovery and frankly, the results have been mixed. Yesterday my wife asked if I could help a friend get the files off of her dead flash drive. Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence. Your computer doesn’t recognize the drive and the little light doesn’t turn on like it usually does. You sit down at your computer and plug your flash drive in, just like you always do.
