Some months ago i purchased a 128gb flash drive from best buy, and over time, filled up about 30gb on it (with porn.)

some months ago i purchased a 128gb flash drive from best buy, and over time, filled up about 30gb on it (with porn.)

the other day i plugged it in to computer and i can't access it. the error message reads "please insert a disk into (D:)", or whichever other volume label. there appears to be no physical damage to the drive externally, but i haven't checked internally - though i'm struggling to think of why it may be damaged. i've never dropped the thing, nor have ever fucked around with it (had it in water, stored near any heat sources, etc.)

is it possible to recover my data? if so, how? i'd also like to try and not bring it to another person...

if you can provide me a working solution, i'll upload one gb of any information you want to a dropbox. i'll take a vote and after, say, a couple hours, i'll choose whichever category gets the highest vote.

Analyze with GParted or drive scanner.

Also, use Recuva.

>using a FLASH DRIVE for important shit
>LET ALONE not backing up your important shit
dude stop using computers

same thing as before. can't access the usb.

Don't open it, you'll break it. Flash drives are notorious for shitting the bed with frequent read/writes. If it's the same on other computers then it's almost certainly fucked beyond repair. Next time store your data somewhere sensible.

My nigger, get an SD card.

Wipe drive the Recuva

Recuva retrieves erased files. Your drive is corrupted

Use Sandisk drives in the future as well

How could this ever help.

i'm testing this rn on another drive, where i've saved an image and a text file. says it'll take several minutes to complete the scan.

i'm just worried about actually destroying my data - like maybe somehow it's still there and i can save it; i'd like to avoid wiping it if the recovery tool isn't gonna work

so hopefully it works

yet another faggot who thinks electronics devices last forever.

usbdrive physical sectors tolerate a maximum number of "write" operations - generally in the order of 10,000-20,000.

if you use the usbdrive as storage - i.e., a few bunches of writes - it will last quite a while. but if you literally save and delete and rename files every day, some of those physical sectors (probably the main directory) will soon hit the maximum write count, and will eventually rekt.

this is why SSD drives reorganize all write/erase commands remapping sectors such that every sector sports somewhat the same write/erase count of all others. this balancing helps using an SSD as a normal disk drive.

yet, in the fine print of usb drives warranty, they tell you you shouldn't write or erase too frequently.

I still have an old working 64 Mb (you read it well, megabytes) usb drive here.

so this is where i'm at rn. recuva seems to have worked on my test drive, so now i'm ready to format and recover my data. only problem is that this is still happening:

what do? this seems to be a persistent problem

Stick the drive in your ass and bite the computer.

It will create an E: drive

why tho?

why is there a limit on read/write cycles?

you know i tried that once and it turned me gay - i kinda enjoyed the experience, tbh. would recommend.

Why the fuck do you think that formating the drive will help you recover your data.

Idk mane, I'm not a computer person. I'm just doing what I'm told.

Think of it as a piece of paper that you're writing with pencil and erasing over and over and over, just on a much smaller but much longer scale. Erasing your data doesn't take it away completely, it leaves a very very faint mark from what you wrote. This is why data can sometimes be recovered, unless you write over it again as the old erased mark will become obscured. This works fine, but each erasing leaves your paper a little bit thinner and worn out than the last time. The post about SSDs reorganizing and keeping read/write cycles even would be the equivalent of writing all over your blank paper before writing on another spot again.

Eventually, your paper will be worn down from writing and erasing constantly, and it'll rip. Aka, dead drive.

more of her

Recover after erasure