Data recovery from RAW pendrive

genini

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Hi.
I have problem with recovering data from SanDisk Cruzer Switch 8gb pendrive. After connecting it to pc, there is pop-up to make a format. Windows shows its capacity is 0. No file system, si its RAW. I tried bunch of softwares but none of them worked. In addition I dont know why the softwares were showing that pendrive have only 67mb instead of 8gb. TestDisk didnt show any partitions.
Do anyone have any ideas what I can do with it?
 
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You have just run in one of first and most common symptoms of dead or dying solid state drives, showing wrong capacity and unable to write to it or format it. They are also subject to static electricity and high temps when not plugged in. I'm afraid that there's not much you can do with it. In case of extreme value of data on them there are services that can save data by removing chips and mounting them in special devices. Even than the can't guarantee more than partial success. Very expensive process. USB drives also have much more limited number of writes comparing to SSDs. All together, they are not to be trusted for valuable data.
You have just run in one of first and most common symptoms of dead or dying solid state drives, showing wrong capacity and unable to write to it or format it. They are also subject to static electricity and high temps when not plugged in. I'm afraid that there's not much you can do with it. In case of extreme value of data on them there are services that can save data by removing chips and mounting them in special devices. Even than the can't guarantee more than partial success. Very expensive process. USB drives also have much more limited number of writes comparing to SSDs. All together, they are not to be trusted for valuable data.
 
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