How to restore the work of flash drive
How to restore the work of flash drive
Causes of malfunction in the USB-removable disk can causeto become interruptions in the power supply, violations of the rules for extracting the device and many other events. Signs of a malfunction are the lack of response to commands, inability to access or transition to the "Read Only" mode.
Instructions
1
Be sure to understand the operation scheme of the removable device: the transfer of data between the computer and Flash memory is carried out by a special program installed on the controller chip.
2
Determine the model of the controllera removable disk: mechanically open the USB flash drive and find the name of the chip on the case or use the specialized tools CheckUDisk, ChipGenius or UsbIDCheck, designed to set the VID and PID codes. The VID code allows you to determine the manufacturer of this removable device, and the PID code identifies the device itself.
3
Remember that the impossibility of determiningthe above codes or the absence of code values are an indication of the electrical damage to the controller and imply that the removable disk can not be restored.
4
Identify the manufacturer of the desired removable device using the found VID code and find out the model of the installed chip using the PID code using the specialized base of iFlash.
5
Take advantage of the opportunity to find the necessarythe recovery tool for the used removable device provided by the sites of the manufacturing companies or select the utility from the list of the Internet resource flashboot.ru.
6
Follow the instructions of the Repair Wizard of the selected tool or learn the instructions that came with the utility.
7
Use one of the following programs torestore the information stored on the drive: - LostFlashPhoto; - PhotoRec. Or, determine the presence of bad sectors of Flash memory if you can not recover data using: - Flashnul; - Victoria; - MyDiskTest.
8
Try to restore the information using the built-in tools of the system: Start - Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management. Apply the scandisk.
