Need help recovering data from an unreadable flash drive

[Wolfenstinger]

Anyone have any input on this? Still looking about but I feel fail at it >.<

[toma]

see a trash can near where you are?

data recovery from a USB drive is way too expensive

[Wolfenstinger]

see a trash can near where you are?

data recovery from a USB drive is way too expensive

So, no hope for manually doing it myself?

[wack0]

If it's unreadable then you're pretty much screwed, but you could try some freeware file recovery programs just in case.

[toma]

there really isn't any utilities online for extracting data off a USB drive and if your PC can't read the USB drive itself you're going to have to take it apart and see if the chipset isn't damaged where it can still be extracted from...buttt....that's gonna cost you some money if you can find someone to do that for you in the first place. If the data is irreplaceable then it'd make sense to do it, if not, it's not worth the time effort or the money.

[Wolfenstinger]

yea, i figured it wouldn't be worth it seeing how there were people charging outrageous amounts for data recovery ($99 was lowest i think i saw?) sigh, time to trash it.
thanks for the help though.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

other than pr0n, what was on it?

[Wolfenstinger]

other than pr0n, what was on it?

dunno, friend handed me it and was like "its broken and I don't know what to do with it" so yea, even I don't know whats on it...lol

[toma]

could use it for target practice

[StarsMine]

What was it formatted as?

[Wolfenstinger]

What was it formatted as?

Not sure, but I'd think w/e the default format would be for when you first get a flashdrive.

[toma]

default format is usually FAT