Hi all,
Apologies if you get multiple copies of this post !!
My creative 1 GB flash disk got very hot a few seconds after plugging
to front USB port of my PC. Now, Neither my own PC nor others do
recognize it. windows does not detect at all that a USB device is just
plugged.
I think it is severely damaged but I'm looking for possible recovery of
the data on it.
Any comment is appreciated !

mansoorm wrote:
> Hi all,
> Apologies if you get multiple copies of this post !!
> My creative 1 GB flash disk got very hot a few seconds after plugging
> to front USB port of my PC. Now, Neither my own PC nor others do
> recognize it. windows does not detect at all that a USB device is just
> plugged.
> I think it is severely damaged but I'm looking for possible recovery of
> the data on it.
> Any comment is appreciated !
>

If the disk isn't recognized in multiple computers, you're not going to
be able to use data recovery software on it. You'd need to contact a
professional data recovery company like Drive Savers (my preference) or
Seagate Data Recovery. General prices run from $500USD on up for
recovering data from hard drives. I don't know what the prices are for
recovering data from other devices like yours, you'd need to call the
companies to find out. I understand that some insurance companies are
now covering data recovery charges under "Loss of Intellectual Property"
so check with yours.

Drive Savers - http://www.drivesavers.com
Seagate Data Recovery Services - https://www.seagatedatarecovery.com/


Malke
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