I assume you've checked it's not a cable issue?
It's also worth giving the actual USB socket a visual inspection, just to check the connectors haven't been damaged in some way.
The problem with flash drives is that some of the techniques used for file recovery on spinning disks don't work with solid state drives.
Traditional disk recovery services will sometimes use methods like forcing the heads to approach bad sectors from different directions in an approach to get something that can be read. Failing that, they can actually swap platters onto a different (identical) drive unit if it's a head/bearing problem. Unfortunately, it's all just chips and electronic components with flash drives, so I'm not sure how 'surgery' could be successfully performed on these drives.
When you say it 'shows up' on a pc laptop, can you actually see/copy the data, or is the red light just indicating that it cannot read the file system?
Hello all
My daughter's Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive suddenly failed without being fully backed up...
The Red light is flashing on it.
It does not show up at all in Disk Utility or the Terminal.
Its presence is noted on my PC laptop, but not on my Mac Pro 5.1 (although the red light flashes).
I own Disk Warrior 4.4 but it's too old to run on my Mac - would Disk Warrior 5 be able to resurrect this thing?
Any other ideas for a Witch Doctor programme that can find/diagnose/wake up/fix/extract files etc?
Thanks for any advice.
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