I think my 512MB Lexar JumpDrive flash / thumb drive has suddenly died on me. I used it at work with no problems but when I got to college 1.5 hours later and plugged it in, nothing. No flashing light and no “windows has detected new hardware”. No reaction at all. After I removed it, the USB connector was quite hot. There was no burnt out electrical / ozone smell. I thought maybe it was a problem with the college PCs but tried it at home – same thing, tried it at work, same thing. All PC’s I’ve tried it on either run Windows XP Pro or Windows 98. I always do the “safely remove hardware routine.
My suspicion is that the flash drive is just dead (though how it went from seemingly perfectly okay to dead in the space of a train ride is beyond me) but all my college notes are on there, and various handy programs my lecturers have told me about (I’m studying networking) and I would love to be able to at least recover the contents.
If anyone has a clue, you’d be saving my life. Or at least confirm that it’s hopeless and I’ll stop trying things and move on!
Thanks,
Louise