So one my few important "work" possessions is a 2 GB USB Flash drive that I carry every where on a key chain and use every day at work. It contains not only backups for personal documents, but more importantly a password manager that I use for a number of key programs while at my desk.
Anyway, for some reason the USB Flash drive seems to have died. Its "activation" lights - a small set of blue lights on the rear of the drive that flash when the drive is being used - no longer operate. Even worse, when I manually locate the drive on the computer and try and open it that way (instead of the autoload I usually get) it asks me if I want to format the drive.
There's no physical damage to the flash drive and I haven't changed or updated any of the items on the flash drive itself, so I'm at a loss to explain what has happened.
Any thoughts or suggestions on ways to try and recover the data on the flash drive? Fortunately I have most of the critical material backed up, but it has been at least a week and will be rather annoying to figure out what's missing and what isn't.
Thanks...
Anyway, for some reason the USB Flash drive seems to have died. Its "activation" lights - a small set of blue lights on the rear of the drive that flash when the drive is being used - no longer operate. Even worse, when I manually locate the drive on the computer and try and open it that way (instead of the autoload I usually get) it asks me if I want to format the drive.
There's no physical damage to the flash drive and I haven't changed or updated any of the items on the flash drive itself, so I'm at a loss to explain what has happened.
Any thoughts or suggestions on ways to try and recover the data on the flash drive? Fortunately I have most of the critical material backed up, but it has been at least a week and will be rather annoying to figure out what's missing and what isn't.
Thanks...
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