enterusername Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 ok all my 6months college work is to be handed in next week, and today my usb stick decided itd stop working! When i plug it in nothing happens even the light doesnt come on! I have lost about half of my work because of this, unless anyone has a way for me to get it back???? please Quote
Ewanofotter Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Try using it on another PC, it may work Quote
Nomix Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Yes try it on another pc and if you can make a hard copy as usb sticks do fail im afraid Quote
Tuffty Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 When I was at school, the excuse was - the dog ate it:p Quote
doz smith Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 depends, i have had sticks fail (sony's) and that was a problem, but have also seen that many get the ends broken so that they need resoldering, if that is your only copy that is a bit stupid though... Quote
Sand-Yeti Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Rotten luck I'm afraid. Surely you would be doing your work on your PC & saving on your hard drive. (Please don't tell me you saved it directly on your memory stick). You should be able to get it back from your hard drive unless you have deleted it. What about the recycle bin - Is it there? They are hard lessons when you lose a lot of info. because you haven't backed it up. I guess I'm a slow learner because it has happened to me several times over the years. I did have one memory stick that had the steel end bit move out of the plastic. I just shoved it back in and stuck it all together with Aradite. It still works . Maybe there is just a poor connection inside the stick that someone can easily fix. Hope you find your work somehow. Sand-Yeti Quote
martin Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Agree about trying another PC. I had a MMC go in my video camera & thought i'd lost loads of stuff. A few months later I just happened to try it in another camera & hey presto, it worked. Downloaded eveything to the PC, formated the MMC & put it back in the original video cam & it works fine. Quote
enterusername Posted January 22, 2007 Author Report Posted January 22, 2007 pah nup not happening! tried another pc! it is saved onto usb directly as college takes everything off hard drives once a week!! ah well hard week for me then! Quote
spooky Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Go see the Collages IT department I'm sure they will have some one there who can extract the info? I'm sure you can not be the only one who has had this issue, guess it is a common occurance. Jon Quote
RandomJon Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Never ever ever ever only keep one copy of your work. Most people do not accept the excuse of failed media. They will just say you should have kept a backup, if the usb stick is truly dead (and not just a loose connection) then I'm afraid your screwed. Spooky, most schools (which given his age i'm guessing hes in sixth form) it departments will not have someone who is capable of recovering data off solid state device. Unlike a harddrive when a chip fails, its gone. Quote
doz smith Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 pah nup not happening! tried another pc! it is saved onto usb directly as college takes everything off hard drives once a week!! ah well hard week for me then! Email it to yourself, if you dont have an account i probably still have invites to googlemail, tis a little annoying as you have to send it in chunks no larger than 10mb from memory... Quote
harry_a Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 mine did that ajnd lost my coursework id backed up though Quote
Ewanofotter Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Go see the Collages IT department I'm sure they will have some one there who can extract the info? I'm sure you can not be the only one who has had this issue, guess it is a common occurance. Jon Most colleges use software called HD guard and each time a PC is re-booted it is wiped clean. So there is not much chance of it being recovered. Quote
Plugus Maximus Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Contact a data recovery specialist. It might cost but it saves having to bust your gut through the night to get all the work done again. (Almost) Nothing is irretrivable (sp?). Quote
RandomJon Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Contact a data recovery specialist. It might cost but it saves having to bust your gut through the night to get all the work done again. (Almost) Nothing is irretrivable (sp?). That might work if it was a harddrive, but not with a usb stick. Quote
peeter_ Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 hmmmm, are all the collage networks on a network? i know that ours are and all work is backed up and kept for 2 weeks i think it is? so if youd saved it on collage computers at all there may be a chance of getting it? if its just the usb, i dont think theres much chance, so looks like so good old over night work Peter Quote
abba Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 Unlucky dude im at a school 6th form and they supplly every students with a username and password when they join. this then gives them 10gb of storage space and a free internet connection(with loads of filters). I just keep a back up of my pen drive on my home external HDD and on my school HDD and i just back up every time i have a few minutes spare. But i'd go for a quality make of Pen drive, i have had various types and will honestly say DISGO are by far the best i have had, i have a 2.2GB atm all for the tasty some of 25 squid off a well known auction site;) Quote
xdavemarshallx Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 That might work if it was a harddrive, but not with a usb stick. I understand your logic, a fried memory chip is a useless fried chip of silicone unlike a Hard Drive which is likley to still have the data surface, or majority of it in tact. But, surely if the problem with the USB stick is not the memory chips them self but rather the interface chips, in theory with new/working interface chips it could be recovered? Don't get me wrong, this would be hugely uneconimically viable, but potentially possible? Quote
The Geoff Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 pah nup not happening! tried another pc! it is saved onto usb directly as college takes everything off hard drives once a week!! ah well hard week for me then! Email it to yourself, if you dont have an account i probably still have invites to googlemail, tis a little annoying as you have to send it in chunks no larger than 10mb from memory... Fifefox has a plugin called Gspace that lets you upload bigger files. Not used it myself, so I don't know if it's any good. Quote
craig.w1599968638 Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 for your reference Basically there are two different types of flash disks (USB drives etc) The first is called SLC or single level cell flash while the second one is called MLC or multi level cell flash. The main difference is that SLC stores a single bit of data per cell whereas MLC, by using a larger number of voltage levels, stores two bits of data per cell. Unfortunately for the MLC flash, the ability to store more data per cell also came with reliability and performance disadvantages. After sometimes a very short use period the CHEAP MLC type USB flash drives they can and do go wrong, they often start off by becoming slow, or sometimes they just dont work!!!! ....dont buy cheap if your going to use it for important stuff!!! ...and back it up!!! ok all my 6months college work is to be handed in next week, and today my usb stick decided itd stop working! When i plug it in nothing happens even the light doesnt come on! I have lost about half of my work because of this, unless anyone has a way for me to get it back???? please Quote
enterusername Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Posted January 23, 2007 recovered some from the recyecle bin but still a 2500 word essay to write Quote
Dick.tracy Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 If it is your last hope, and you don't want to send it to a data recovery expert, try one of these programs http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm or similar - it's got to be worth a try. If you think the stick is totally duff, it is probably worth breaking the case open, looking for dodgy connections, or simply wiggling it about in your USB port (making sure you don't damage the port of course!) I had a memory stick for my camera (same technology) which refused to play at all, tried formatting it, still no joy. It was a year later once I'd formatted it within windows drive manager that it finally "came back to life". Quote
tszy Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 I recall a brainiac episode where several different types of storage media were subjet to rough treatment including driving a car over them and firing them out of a mortar gun into a concrete wall - the USB stick won. I work in I.T. so I have to agree with the Sand Yeti - you work on you hard disc and just copy onto USB stick as a backup. I always maintain two copies on seperate USB sticks - different makes, you can't be too careful. If the USB stick was your only copy then your'e really asking for trouble but the data should be recoverable - though it may cost you. Good Luck Quote
Plugus Maximus Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 Contact a data recovery specialist. It might cost but it saves having to bust your gut through the night to get all the work done again. (Almost) Nothing is irretrivable (sp?). That might work if it was a harddrive, but not with a usb stick. Point accepted. If it's any consolation when completing my degree I had to finish a 15,000 word dissertation by whatever the deadline was. True to form I was writting the last 7,000 words of it the night before. About 3am in the morning my state of the art Pentium 75Mhz PC (hey don't laugh it cost a fortune 12 years ago!!) started to lag. Word then crashed as apparently I discovered word is not capable of handling 10,000 words with 48 large bitmaps and assorted charts. I lost 3-,5000 words and I had 6 hours to go. I made it ... god knows how* and my dissertation passed and I got a 2:1 for it. If poo hits the fan dig in deep and plod on. You'll be amazed at what you recall and I reckon it comes out better when under pressure! Mind you they don't like plagiarism these days .... *not really ... it's a term of reference ... he doesn't exist you know! Quote
kiteboarder-F16 Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 gutted james... u could do it at work lol Quote
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