USB Flash Drive Problem - Light glows, but drive is not detected
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USB Flash Drive Problem - Light glows, but drive is not detected
Hello,
I have a Transcend 4GB USB flash drive that suddenly stopped working. However, when I insert it into the USB slot, the light on the drive glows, but I'm unable to mount the drive, neither does ubuntu detect it.
I disconnected the flash drive, and then run `dmesg | tail`. The result was this :
[ 623.940610] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 623.940928] usb-storage: device found at 6
[ 623.940931] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 628.940422] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 628.941102] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB Flash Disk 7.76 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 628.943708] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 628.943818] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 912.480581] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec
[ 1025.224066] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 33750 nsec
[ 1294.541827] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 6
Then I connected it again and the result of `dmesg | tail` now was :
[ 1294.541827] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 6
[ 1300.200578] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
[ 1300.398678] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1300.399224] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 1300.412323] usb-storage: device found at 7
[ 1300.412327] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 1305.412373] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 1305.413053] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB Flash Disk 7.76 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 1305.422710] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 1305.422822] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Can I, by any means, recover this flash drive?
Regards,
Mihir
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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
HP Pavilion dv6-1152tx, Intel Core2 duo at 2 GHz, 4GB Memory
check the o/p of dmesg |tail and wait until it gets a drive letter. You may need to mount sdb1 instead of sdb
fdisk -l
tells you about all partitions on all disks. Read that.
Also try it in different USB ports and computers, if it works in none, then it's probably dead, toss it in the garbage because chances of recovery if it is dead are zero.
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