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#1 deatty

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Posted 15 August 2019 - 05:19 AM

hi to all and and an early thanks to those who will try to give me a hand...

 

I created a bootable pendrive based on win2go environment on vhd file (win 10 o.s.).

 

Everything works properly until the usb drive was no longer recognized as a boot device.

 

Trying to connect the drive to another pc I noticed that it is no longer recognized.

the windows disk management tool show "no media" referred to the usb drive unit.

 

Can someone advise me how to proceed to try to solve the problem, or try to recover the data ?


Edited by deatty, 15 August 2019 - 05:20 AM.


#2 Wonko the Sane

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Posted 15 August 2019 - 08:41 AM

Hmmm.
It might be tricky or downright impossible, that is the behaviour of a stick gone bad. :(
 
You need first thing to identify EXACTLY the USB stick.
 
Go here (use google translate from Russian):
https://www.usbdev.ru/
 
https://www.usbdev.r...icles/thestart/
 
For the moment skip item #1 (putting it in test mode which involves opening the case of the stick and shorting a few terminals and only follow #2 as to identify the chips, use all three suggestd tools:
ChipGenius
Flash Drive Information Extractor
ChipEasy
 
and report output.
 
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#3 deatty

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Posted 15 August 2019 - 06:18 PM

Thanks for the feedback.

 

 

 

ChipEasy:

 

 

Logical drive   : F:\            Capacity:  0.0G

Device ID       : VID = 0781     PID = 5583
Device SN       : 4C530000080620103345
Device version  : 1.00
 
Device vendor   : SanDisk
Device model    : Ultra Fit
Protocol        : 
Max power       : not support
 
Partition type  :                Device active   : 
Aligned state   : Misaligned
 
Network error, the request for chipmodel failed!
OS Version      : Windows 8 Personal 

 

 

ChipGenius:

 

 

Description: [F:]Dispositivo di archiviazione di massa USB(SanDisk Ultra Fit)

 
Protocal Version: USB 2.10 <- Hint: This device can run faster when plugged to a USB3.0 port
Current Speed: High Speed
 
USB Device ID: VID = 0781 PID = 5583
 
Device Revision: 0100
 
Manufacturer: SanDisk
Product Model: Ultra Fit
Product Revision: 1.00
 
Controller Part-Number: Not recognized during normal detection. Please try powerful detection

 

usbflashinfo

 

 

USB flash drive could not be found.

Plug in a USB flash drive and restart the utility.
 
Error Level F: 420000029
 

Edited by deatty, 15 August 2019 - 06:21 PM.


#4 Wonko the Sane

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Posted 16 August 2019 - 11:31 AM

It is unfortunately what I feared :ph34r:, a SanDisk.

SanDisk are (usually) very good devices but they are also the most difficult to repair/salvage because they - unlike most other USB stick manufacturers - use internally developed hardware/chips/whatever.

And an UltraFit is - I believe - a "monolith", i.e. all components are "enclosed".

More or less all you can try is their "RescuePro" software:
https://www.sandisk....flash/ultra-fit
https://www.lc-tech....cuepro/?lang=it

No idea how it works (and if will work in your case) as it is not "free" (you need to have a serial from the stick - or from SanDsk and provide personal info - BTW seemingly in clear violation of the GDPR).

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Posted 21 August 2019 - 06:50 PM

it's seems a recovery tool for drive that can be yet accessed by pc.

For non funtional drives and drives that cannot be accessed by pc, sandisk reccomanded to send the drive to a third party recovery company

 

https://kb.sandisk.c...nd-flash-drives

 

 

i'll try to inform about prices for the recovery service...

From what i understand with SanDisk i don't have many alternatives...

 

Anyway, thanks for your support !



#6 Wonko the Sane

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Posted 22 August 2019 - 07:58 AM

Of course it is up to you, but remember to be seated when you receive the quote for the data recovery.

We are talking of hundreds of Euro, unless you have non replaceable data on the stick, it is simply not worth it.

 

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