My USB stick (some people call them 'flash drives') is a little integral 8GB stick.
So I was pretty stupid. I had it plugged in to one of the front ports about half way up my tower.
When I stood up, I stood on the stick. I took it apart, bent it back, and carefully soldered up a couple of broken contacts (Ones that attach the USB plug itself to the circuit board. I carefully looked around, and the solders were good; not touching anything else or anything.
I plug it back in, and a message pops up (I'm using windows 7, have yet to try it on my Ubuntu laptop) something along the lines of: A USB device attached to this computer has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it.
Trying it in different win7 computers gives mixed results, as shown below:
Edit: I do not want to buy a new one, since there is data on the stick i would rather not lose
So I was pretty stupid. I had it plugged in to one of the front ports about half way up my tower.
When I stood up, I stood on the stick. I took it apart, bent it back, and carefully soldered up a couple of broken contacts (Ones that attach the USB plug itself to the circuit board. I carefully looked around, and the solders were good; not touching anything else or anything.
I plug it back in, and a message pops up (I'm using windows 7, have yet to try it on my Ubuntu laptop) something along the lines of: A USB device attached to this computer has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it.
Trying it in different win7 computers gives mixed results, as shown below:
Same message as my computer shows up.
Red LED on USB stick flashes once, then the same message as my computer shows up.
Message saying 'installing device driver' appears until 'driver installation failed' shows.
Red LED on USB stick flashes once, then a message saying 'installing device driver' appears until 'driver installation failed' shows.
Message saying 'installing device driver' appears until I get the same message as my computer.
Red LED on USB stick flashes once, then a message saying 'installing device driver' appears until i get the same message as my computer.
Nothing obvious happens, except for the appearance of Unknown Device in device manager.
Edit: I do not want to buy a new one, since there is data on the stick i would rather not lose
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