Get recovery software and a NAND reader that supports the drive’s controller type.

You may have to a hire an expert to do the job for you, but read the following steps to see if you can do it own your own. Recovering data from a flash disk is a complicated task. Some conditions that can make your gadget dead include damaged circuit board (blown resistors/capacitors, lifted pads, damaged NANDs, and broken crystal oscillator), damaged controller chip, and unresponsive drive. If your pen stick is damaged beyond repair, you may have to concentrate only on recovering the data. How to Recover Data/Files from a USB Flash Drive In addition, I will teach you how to recover data from dead, damaged, or corrupted generic pen drive without formatting. I will also teach you how to repair a broken USB stick. In this article, I will show you how to fix a USB drive that has malfunctioned (i.e., one that is not recognized in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows7, Windows XP, and other systems). Your drive could be dead, and the best thing to do is to recover the data or files contained in it. You may have to forget about your data storage gadget if you see some of these error messages on your screen, or if your USB flash drive is not showing up or not detected.

'USB Device Not Recognized or Malfunctioned.'.

'Please insert disk into removable disk.'.

'Can’t format the drive, quit any disk utilities or other programs that are using this drive, and then try formatting again.'.

'Please insert a disk into drive windows.'.

'Pen drive is detected, but not showing in My Computer.'.

'The disk is write protected, remove write protection or use another disk.'.

'Generic volume cannot be stopped right now.'.

For a list of available ports, click here' (common in Windows 7).

'This USB device can perform faster if you connect it to a high-speed USB 2.

In addition to the above mentioned errors, there are other less serious errors of flash sticks that should not make you panic, such as:

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