More recently, we stored music, videos and electronic documents on CDs or floppy disks. However, these media gradually disappeared, replaced by a much more compact and capacious flash drive, USB or just a flash drive. It serves as a fairly reliable "repository" of any information, but even a USB drive
sometimes breaks. What to do if the flash drive does not load or is not detected in the system? You can discard an unusable drive and buy a new one if there is nothing important left on it. But sometimes there remains a thesis or a single copy of an important document, it has to be restored.
Restoring a Transcend
flash drive is no different from the same “operation” with a drive of any other brand.
So, we will consider a situation in which the flash drive “hung” during the recording process and was not determined when reconnecting. At the same time, a USB device appeared in the list of USB devices, but the disk manager did not show its icon. These symptoms indicate a controller failure. Any drives, including Transcend flash drives, are based on a control chip or controller. Various power failures or problems block the controller, and inaccessible sectors appear on USB. If flash drive
“Frozen” due to a system failure, you should do the following:
- Define the name and manufacturer of the controller.
- Find a utility developed by this company.
- Put the control chip in test mode and restore.
We’ll start the restoration of the Transcend flash drive by disassembling it for details - this is the easiest way to find out the manufacturer of the chip. The USB drive is disassembled easily, it is enough to bend the edge of the sticker on its case, press the latch that hides under the sticker with a thin object and gently pull on the connector. The controller, in fact, is a printed circuit board. On one side is a chip, and on the other is a memory chip. Both sides contain data necessary for recovery.
Having decided on the manufacturer of the controller, we will continue to restore the Transcend flash drive. The next step is to find a utility from the manufacturer. It must support the controller with this number. You can download the utility utility from a resource distributing free software. If no flash drive application is “view
um ”, it should be put into test mode. What contacts for this need to be closed are indicated in the documentation of the drive. Having found a suitable program, you should install the factory driver that came with it. You can find it in the folder with the utility installed.
Now the direct recovery of the Transcend flash drive begins. First, download the utility and start the drive search. After waiting for it to appear in the program, press the “Start” button, thereby launching the diagnostics and formatting of the drive. It should be remembered that all data recorded on the USB flash drive will be erased. To restore the maximum capacity of a flash drive, it is worth formatting it twice. After the message about the successful completion of the "operation", we turn off the factory driver, return the USB flash drive to its normal operating mode and reboot it.
I hope my story about how to recover data on a USB flash drive will be useful more than once in a hopeless situation.