[ale] recovering usb thumb drive (was: OT:, but too geeky to be OT)

[Jeff Lightner]

There is a company called Pivar that does things like data conversions
and disk recoveries.  I used them years ago to recover a Xenix disk and
every once in a while see questions like this.   Their number is
1-800-CONVERT.   Not sure if they deal with thumb drives but if nothing
else works you might give them a call.

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Subject: Re: [ale] recovering usb thumb drive (was: OT:, but too geeky
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William Fragakis wrote:
> A teacher at our school has physically damaged a usb thumb drive -
> accidentally knocked into it while it was sticking out of the
computer.
> Sadly, this thumbdrive held a lot of original (ie not backed up)
> material. Is recovery possible and/or cost effective?

If the chip is intact then it should be possible for someone to get a
magnifying glass, a low heat soldering iron (with a fine tip), some
small wire, and manually reconnect each contact point.

- -Jim P.
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