USB Flash Drive Broken

yup i broke it but not in half just the stem part the insert section so i was hoping if i could fix it maybe solder the connections back?? if possible or tranfer the chip to a another flash drive idk what to dooo my whole life is in this thing any help would be appreciated thank you.

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Best chance is to re solder the connections. You should have had more than one back up of your files. Hope you won't make the same mistake again. Unless you have the EXACT SAME flash drive (including PCB rev,etc) there is virtually no chance to recover the data with out spending $2000+.

Ohh that stinks, I say bust out the soldering iron as well. The third pin down looks like it had the connection on the board removed (no solder showing), so it will be more difficult. If you can't get it try tracing to where it leads and solder a jumper wire to reach the plug. Good luck!

Edit:
It looks like you can use the following point to solder to for that third pin:

Use as little heat as possible, you don't want to disconnect anything accidentally.

and what kind of soldering tools would this kind of job require?

I can tell from the picture that to repair this flash drive as suggested would be almost impossible. There are internal solder runs all along the PCB and several have been broken in this case. The only viable sollution (and a much easier one in this case) would be to buy another Sandisk Cruzer exactly the same as the broken one and put the old NAND memory chip on the new device. We do this almost every day with around 90% success. However, without all the right tools, such as a hot air SMD station and a microscope, I wouldn't try it at home.

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