USB drive is not formatted!!!!

[GregZ]

PC inspector is awesome

[bizzel]

I often get totally dead drives brought to me that dont't show up at all. Nine times out of ten the chip has come unsoldered from the board. What I do is crack the case of and hold the chip in place while the pupil copies their work off (quickly!)

[llawwehttam]

Try using the RECUVA program to recover any data but not sure how to fix the other prob

[PiqueABoo]

FWIW PC Inspector and Recuva were both in my "couldn't hack it" category. When pointed at the "not formatted" pendrive the former threw a memory exception, the latter (which is portable so I carry it around) couldn't see anything.

[KK20]

bump for great justice! (yes I know it is a 3 year old thread but damn useful!) Got a pupils USB "not formatted" working again, knew about recuva but not pc inspector. Obviously they had never used their my documents (which is backed up of course).