Flash Drive Chips

[Arashi_Calunata]

Ugh.. Well, I broke all of my flash drives. But that's not what this thread was bout.

Anyways, I need to know if there is a way to recover the files on the chipsets, which managed to (As far as I can tell) stay intact. The USB part is the part that broke. I had well over 100 pages of Word data on important topics on those, as well as quite a few game mods, and more.

[Weisseman]

Unless you can incredibly handy with PCB's (and the connections on them) and a solder I'm afraid there is no way to recover them easily. I've know this happen to a lot of people.

If the connections on the drive are still intact and its just the metal and plastic sleeve of the connection you might be able to fashion something temporary but this isn't something I've ever tried myself.

[Sequester]

I asked my mate about this; he works at a small computer shop and says they recover data from broken flash drives for about $15 (provided it really is just the connection that's broken). Depending on what those files are worth to you, you may try calling some repair shops in your area.

Good luck with the recovery; I know it really bites losing important data like that ><

[Acton]

It its the connection then you can  find some computer shop to recover it. it will take some body skilled in  SMT soldering, One may be able to solder a new connector or jumper one in.  It will take special tools like an smt soldering iron

[Arashi_Calunata]

Thanks for the input, it helps ^.^

[Jacoby Quinn]

not that hard, take an old usb extension and cut the wires, solder on to the respective contacts, it's incredibly tedious and a steady hand is required, other than that it should be straightforwards

[McMajik]

not that hard, take an old usb extension and cut the wires, solder on to the respective contacts, it's incredibly tedious and a steady hand is required, other than that it should be straightforwards

Or, you could tape the wires down. Not a fix, but I imagine it's last long enough for you to be able to get your files off it?

[Jacoby Quinn]

not that hard, take an old usb extension and cut the wires, solder on to the respective contacts, it's incredibly tedious and a steady hand is required, other than that it should be straightforwards

Or, you could tape the wires down. Not a fix, but I imagine it's last long enough for you to be able to get your files off it?

unless they come lose in the transfer and corrupt, or worse, the wires touch and short out your computer, happened with my laptop once.