USB Stick Data Recovery

It isn’t the first time, and it probably won’t be the last. Today I had a client e-mail me in some panic, as her USB memory drive had stopped working. It was plugged into the computer, and someone walked into it, bending the connector.

Breaking the 64MB, chinese-made promotional USB key was not the disaster – it was losing the files on it.

I’ve had luck before re-soldering damaged USB key connectors, so I got my tools together and gave it a shot.

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Tags: key, memory, pcb, recovery, salvage, solder, traces, usb