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FLASH DRIVE FAILURE

TEACHING MATERIAL by DARIUS KAZLAUSKAS, SENIOR ENGLISH TEACHER


GROUP: KD13V
DATE: 2014-10-09

FLASH DRIVES FAIL for all sorts of reasons. Here are the TOP THREE
causes of flash drive failure that we come across on a regular basis.

Broken Flash Drive Connectors

The most common type of flash drive damage is a broken USB connector. When a flash drive is
sticking out of the side of a laptop or the front of a PC tower, it's very easy to bump or kick it
causing the connector to bend or even break off completely. When this happens, it's very
important to unplug the flash drive and not to plug it back in. When a flash drive's connector is
bent, sometimes the power lead will be torn loose from the circuit board and short circuit
across other components or data connections. Plugging it in in such a state could cause serious
damage and make recovery very difficult or even impossible.

Sometimes people with soldering iron experience will try to re-attach the broken leads
themselves. However, more often than not, the solder pads have been torn off the circuit board
leaving nothing for the solder to attach to. Is such cases, we will either rebuild the solder runs
and solder pads. Or if the damage is too severe, we will either remove and attach the memeory
chip(s) to a new identical circuit board or use one of our external NAND chip readers to access
the raw data directly.
Failed Flash Drive Components

Sometimes one of a flash drive's components such as a micro-controller, oscillator, resistor or


capacitor will burn out and need to be replaced. Having a very large inventory of old flash
drives means we often have replacement parts on hand. If not, one options is to locate or
purchase a flash drive of the exact same model to use for parts.

From time to time a customer will ask us if they can use a flash drive after it has been repaired
by the FlashDrivePros. This is not advisable since the process of repairing a flash drive for the
purpose of data recovery is very different from the manufacturing process. Any flash drive that
has been repaired by a data recovery shop should not be used as it will likely stop working very
soon.

Flash Drive File System Damage

Pulling a flash drive out while files are still transfering, power surges, viruses, and a host of
other things cause file system damage in flash drives. When file system damage occurs, we
usually have to use advanced command-line software tools to locate, repair and rebuild the
data. This can be a very difficult and time-consuming process. One way to protect against file
system damage is to always use the "safely remove hardware" feature in Windows.

Of course, if you keep an up-to-date backup of your flash drive files, the only thing you have to
worry about is the cost of replacing a broken flash rather than loosing all your important (often
irreplaceable) files.

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