Maybe the customer thought if you lost one of the notes you would have a backup? It's a reasonable measure, don't understand the hate.
@alexparakan Жыл бұрын
Bruh it's just Alex being Alex. He's just straight forward and don't really care much about feelings.
@dahrafs9798 Жыл бұрын
This him is better businessman. Two years ago him was a better person.
@TLM-Nathan Жыл бұрын
It just adds to the clutter around. Put as much detail as you can in the ticket and be done with it. However; I understand wanting to add notes. As a former mechanic it was cool having a note from the vehicle owner because you get the description of the problem from the person themselves rather than some service writer that's only half paying attention and pretending to be in a hurry and leaves out half the stuff or doesn't word it properly.
@SHINdanny Жыл бұрын
...maybe because he might lose time, he has to read both notes and compare since they can have different or additional information. From that point of view I can understand ;)
@joawesome2319 Жыл бұрын
He can never loose the note if he has it stored in his system on the computer.
@leeheggie7043 Жыл бұрын
I do this kind of work and when windows acts weird like it was i then take the flash drive and plug it into a linux based environment. the amount of success i get with this method is 7 out of 10 times linux allows you to see the files where windows hung. before i take drives apart in this situation i always try linux environment first. The local college sent a female student to me with a flash drive with similar symptoms as they tried for days to recover her college work off the drive and failed. She came to me and i sent her to a local shop about 5 minutes walk from my place to buy a replacement drive as i was out of them. By the time she got back i had a backup of her files on my desktop ready to put onto her new drive. She walked away over the moon happy. Within half an hour the college it guy comes to me to ask how i did it. I told him not everyone lives in a Microsoft world.
@Produkt_R Жыл бұрын
My first thought exactly. You could even quickly salvage some data by doing dd
@leeheggie7043 Жыл бұрын
@@crylune was that operator error or linux error.
@paranadayo4 күн бұрын
tengo el mismo pendrive con el mismo problema y en linux falla igual. Es un defecto de fabrica de este modelo por desgracia
@leonkernan Жыл бұрын
Your a braver man than me plugging in random peoples usb drives.
@austist Жыл бұрын
definitely working on a virtual machine so that the system and its file contents are accessible at all times. i just assume by how the file explorer looks anyways-
@kaimojepaslt Жыл бұрын
@@austist he isnt working on virtual.
@pavloss3119 Жыл бұрын
I mean they do have his info
@ributasmara5841 Жыл бұрын
I think win 10 devender is good enough
@nopelandfill Жыл бұрын
@@pavloss3119 its not always intentional, the customer's computer may have a rootkit on it that he's unaware of himself, have some mercy 😂
@netninjask1zer Жыл бұрын
There might be overheating protection on the chip. Try cooling it while extracting data. It’s a long shot but I am curious. Also you might try a bit lower usb voltage.
@Mr28d23 Жыл бұрын
Was going to say this.
@manickn6819 Жыл бұрын
Yeah I would say put it in a non conductive fluid or try thermal paste and a decent heat sink.
@unrealmanel Жыл бұрын
Like the idea
@sihamhamda47 Жыл бұрын
@@manickn6819 I think thermal pad + heat sink is enough to cool a removable drive
@manickn6819 Жыл бұрын
@@sihamhamda47 probably is. Forced cooling of the heat sink may or may not be necessary depending on the size.
@joawesome2319 Жыл бұрын
Those sandisk flash drives are known to get very hot during operation. It could be a possibility that the chip overheated itself
@Bus2000 Жыл бұрын
my idea to
@paultomlinson528 Жыл бұрын
The controller does all power management and often fails
@maklogetrich2378 Жыл бұрын
I use sandisk flare and yes it's very hot because it's very fast
@CiderPang27 Жыл бұрын
Looked like the heat was coming from the led. Noticed it wasn’t lighting up either. What about removing it and trying it?
@agostini81 Жыл бұрын
I noticed the same thing
@kingKai2022 Жыл бұрын
I was about to say that too haha good thing I'm not posting also
@DALOCKATTACK Жыл бұрын
That's not how leds work
@undertakerg9 Жыл бұрын
Hi. There is a way to slide those kinds of drives out from the shell through the back. One clip holds it inside. Regards
@JasonBiggs666 Жыл бұрын
I've had some low success with cooling the chip . Used canned air, holding it upside down, to keep it super cold. maybe 15% of the time it'll keep the chip cool long enough to work. works on HDD controller chips as well.....rarely, but sometimes. Easy to do.
@budgetking2591 Жыл бұрын
huh, what a vague description, use canned air, hold upsite down???????????? uhhhhhhh ok............
@redbaron6805 Жыл бұрын
@@budgetking2591 Canned "air" is basically R134a refrigerant. When you hold it upright, it dispenses gas, when you hold it upside down, it dispenses liquid refrigerant which basically works as a freeze spray.
@vadimbellous8313 Жыл бұрын
@@budgetking2591 Anyone who works with electronics in any capacity knows what he means. Although there is a first time for everything, for everyone, and hearing about canned air and its uses might be yours.
@VladoT Жыл бұрын
You should have a cooling spray in hand and try to cool the drive's chip and try to read that way.
@ernestmccollum2397 Жыл бұрын
@Vlado T but if the chip is shorted inside it will not work.
@Steffen_ Жыл бұрын
There is a short inside the Chip, i have the same problem with a Sandisc usb drive. When the ice melt, what your cooling spray generate, u get another short of all usb pins.
@khatharrmalkavian3306 Жыл бұрын
The heat is not the problem. The heat is a symptom.
@jamesjames2761 Жыл бұрын
Was about to buy a 128gb version of this drive. I'll keep looking for something else. Great vid
@sadmatch41 Жыл бұрын
So you won't be buying anything that goes to a repair shop? You're not gonna buy anything cuz everything break at one point and that's normal Nothing in this video stated that it died prematurely or anything like that
@GregM Жыл бұрын
All flash drives can fail. Do not use them as your main drive. Do REGULAR backups of your critical files
@kunka592 Жыл бұрын
Basically all flash drives are terrible for random catastrophic failures. Especially if you leave them plugged in. They overheat easily and will lose everything on them. Only use them for transporting files or as a backup (of a backup, preferably), or some other task where data loss is acceptable.
@paultomlinson528 Жыл бұрын
These devices seem to fail often but only because they are so popular... buy a good brand and stay away from Chinese cheapo things
@Blackdog4818 Жыл бұрын
If this channel has shown me one thing, it's double save everything you wish to have, because it's a lot cheaper buying a flash drive than sending it off to this guy. Love his work though.
@mrtechie6810 Жыл бұрын
Don't use flash for backups! It's not reliable!
@FanaxLt Жыл бұрын
It's a longshot, but try connecting to USB 1.1 port on 2000's PC.
@incandescentwithrage Жыл бұрын
That would not help at all. There's a short, not a data protocol problem
@Toby1952 Жыл бұрын
Since you've already deemed it a lost cause you might try a long shot and put the drive in a plastic bag and immerse the bag in a container of ice water. Doing so MAY cool the overheating chip just enough to get it functioning long enough to pull the data off the drive.
@Djbiohazard19912 ай бұрын
The heat isn't keeping the drive from booting. There's a dead short inside the IC package (which keeps it from working) that generates heat. :)
@fraenkiboii Жыл бұрын
I love how you're having this peaceful and intimate moment with the holy flash drive at 11:40 :D
@dahrafs9798 Жыл бұрын
You have amazing skills. But compared to your videos of 2-3 years ago and now your average tone towards the customers seems unnecessarily harsh. It seems you were very soft spoken in the past. But with increased customers you seem to have lost the value of customers. Like insulting for attaching a sticky note. Saying let's take out "diamond" for packing something well. If you have time watch videos of your past. Maybe this version of YOU are a better businessman that version of YOU were certainly a better person. Don’t let the success take over you head. Best wishes.
@binmode Жыл бұрын
I had a pendrive working but it is faulty now because of all the UV light it got exposed to when I watch your videos 🤣🤣🤣 great video!
@mbwatson1000 Жыл бұрын
I always used these sorts of no-fix situations as an opportunity to teach the customer something about data backup, suggesting to them ways of ensuring they do not rely on any single physical device to store their data.
@thealienontheinternet Жыл бұрын
Why get so heated only because the customer left a note in the package? It's not like they left you a whole book to read
@frosty.winnipeg Жыл бұрын
Yeah the LED part has me wondering too. Snap it off. Let’s not forget what these drives are good for - transportation and backing up files! So where are the originals then?
@mrtechie6810 Жыл бұрын
Don't use flash for backups! It's not reliable!
@pingpong9656 Жыл бұрын
Must be a way of COOLING the chip to give you enough time to see if data can be read off before it;s protection kicks in.
@jonathanjacob468 Жыл бұрын
no way sherlock
@morsetoujours1396 Жыл бұрын
Hi Alex, You should have tried to recover files with a recovery software first. When Windows detects the drive even if it cannot read it there is a high percentage of recovering the files. Maybe you've tried this before and not putting it in the video.
@bloeckmoep Жыл бұрын
Doesn't help you in this case, as the handshake and power negotiation fails. Usb 2.0 usually allows 100mA pre device negotiation and 500mA if successful, that is important. If a device has problems and fails the handshake due to electrical problems, it is auto setback. That is the reason why you get an infinite device detect, device not recognized loop. If the defect on a usb device is heavy enough or the handshake loop has been retried one to many times, it could happen that the used usb ports power polymere fuse goes open and you can't retry a connection for quite some time. Anyway, if the device is not stably connected to host system, no software will be able to reach through the memory controller down to the nand or nor chip itself. This is probably a case of a defective memory controller. Only data forensics whith grinding down the storage, hooking it to a donor controller or some hidden spi pins and hoping it does not scramble the contents will yield a possible success.
@Muslim_011 Жыл бұрын
Nope You can hear the beep detection then a second after it get unpluged
@mrBDeye Жыл бұрын
Recovery software wouldn't work in this case because the chip is getting hot.
@paultomlinson528 Жыл бұрын
I've done a monolith nand read on the early versions of those devices, but the later ones have a unique pinout under the black paint I don't have this pinout yet
@gordonm2821 Жыл бұрын
When I used to use a car repair shop near me the woman on reception would book your car in with her diagnosis of the fault, not the symptoms so you had to leave a note on driver seat with the actual issue to look at.
@mrvolcada5355 Жыл бұрын
Now you may think I'm silly but 40 years ago I used to do data recovery on floppy discs, place disc in plastic bag, place bag in the freezer for 10 mins, remove and try again. Worked 90% of the time. Also used to go around the PCB with a can of freezer spray and spray individual components, then power up, eureka
@marcdedouallier3209 Жыл бұрын
Some folks wonder why repairs are sometimes not cheap. They should watch these videos to get an understanding of the work involved.. Even something as "simple" as opening a USB shell takes time.. :-)
@paultomlinson528 Жыл бұрын
When I deal with these devices I have a old soldering iron and melt the plastic
@AKG58Z Жыл бұрын
Drives like this which are only Nand chips are destined to fail because these have extremely tiny trace's or tracks inside and when in use these chips get Hot and fail eventually cause of tracks start to break on microscopic level because of stress caused by Heat.
@scripter2510 Жыл бұрын
5:43 is there a problem with the back of the flash drive components ?
@Dolofanu2 Жыл бұрын
With all do respect, you ar one of the best from KZbin .... nobody can tell me that I'm wrong ....
@carstendahlhjarup8783 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if using external 5V power supply with current limiter could allow getting data without tipping over temperaure ,, or cooling of flash-IC while data recovery would work ?
@Druid_Plow Жыл бұрын
Flash drives have gotten to the point we're actually just shoving a NAND chip into the usb port. That's kinda impressive. Lol
@detmer87 Жыл бұрын
I have two Sandisk Ultra 64GB usbsticks. Both still work for a few minutes but as soon as they get hot (which they do at idle) they stop working. Sandisk really made junk. Mine both died little over two years. If I had stress tested these when new I'm quite certain I could destroy these within a few days...
@thomashenden71 Жыл бұрын
Could it have worked, salvaging the data, if the chip was cooled during the process with transferring the data? Because it seems like the drive is recognized and maybe is working, until it gets too hot because of overheating. (We could be lucky, that there is a leakage of current that doesn't affect the data on the chip, maybe someone here has experienced something like this) Meaning - showering it with freeze spray while it is connected, or possibly using dry ice would help. Maybe even also pure, cold ice/water as it doesn't conduct too much electricity, would have worked.
@rlmtech Жыл бұрын
Slide the usb back inside there should be a clip that holds it from sliding all the way out the thin end
@procommel Жыл бұрын
It seems that the four wires of the USB have been connected in a mirrored way so you have turned the power on in reverse
@tomluque Жыл бұрын
LED? You did not mention testing the LED using the DIODE Mode on the meter which will light the LED if the meter outputs over 2.5V test voltage. I was thinking that the LED was shorted because the FLIR showed the hot spot where the LED was. I believe the clamshell case was ultrasonically sealed. In the medical field, I have seen ultrasonic machine that melt the plastic electronic box edges together. The company I worked for said they did not want the liability of someone trying to repair their medical electronics. I have been successful in opening sealed cases (glue or ultrasonic) by squeezing around on the seam with a vise till it will crack apart. ABS slovent is used to re-seal the plastic. I discovered yesterday that I could re-seal a case that was cut open with a saw by using the 3Dooler pen with ABS filament to fill in the gaps.
@scottwojcik2148 Жыл бұрын
exact same issue here with the same flash drive and symptoms. The data on the drive is not very important luckily.
@euphoricmonk Жыл бұрын
Maybe you can freeze the drive for a few minutes, just enough time to pull the data off it.
@evdokios Жыл бұрын
exactly what I was thinking
@generalbutz8477 Жыл бұрын
This is the first time i hear such a technique. can it really work?
@Muslim_011 Жыл бұрын
I dont think so the instant when you pluged it in it get hot imediately because of the short inside
@dingdong2103 Жыл бұрын
Those Sandisk drives are total crap it seems. I have one and it has never worked properly. Slow as hell and fails to detect occasionally.
@euphoricmonk Жыл бұрын
@@generalbutz8477 Things generally work better in the cold. I have tried this on other devices and it works.
@pdr5926 Жыл бұрын
"let me remove that piece of diamond from this Rolex box..." lol
@stefanlechner Жыл бұрын
Amazing work. Sad that you couldn't fixed it. Thank you for that video. Greet
@samanthafierro5679 Жыл бұрын
Don't get angry! It's a love note!
@MrKab04 Жыл бұрын
thank you for trying to just do everything possible. very satisfying
@grproteus Жыл бұрын
It seemed that the heat was coming from a specific SMT component on the top of the flashdrive? Was that an LED? If it's a LED, I'd try to remove it before deeming it a nofix
@DavidLeeMenefee Жыл бұрын
Very interesting I've never seen anything like this before, thanks for showing!
@Analoque444 Жыл бұрын
That's why I hate usb sticks and portable hd's too. When you plug it in, you never know whether the drive will run like it did the last time you used it, and you pray inside each time xD That wasn't even the case with the old 3.5-inch floppy disks 🤣
@Maltmeister1 Жыл бұрын
All I can say is,, You know your shit friend,,nice to see skill at this level
@alanuiliam4954 Жыл бұрын
Question ? Whats happen if you cool it down with freezing spay and check if the drive stay longer conected and maybe readable
@Frank55 Жыл бұрын
I think this man is a skilled repairman, but I'm glad he's not my neighbor. (I suppose we'd have a problem every day then...)
@leafleap Жыл бұрын
I cant believe how small those drives are when you take away the housing, almost looks to be the size of an SD card or something.
@paulzac5481 Жыл бұрын
Try using fingernail polish remover. Acetone wait a few minutes and pry apart.
@Morpheus-pt3wq Жыл бұрын
I had whole bunch of these SanDisk flashdrives (this exact model). This flashdrive model has a manufacturing defect - once the unit detects a failure in data readings, it locks itself against writing. My entire stock suffered from this fate. And yet, SanDisk keeps selling them. Since then, i´m avoiding that brand. It kinda sux, as i have one of SanDisk´s more expensive flashdrives, which is fast and reliable (works to this day). If you need cheap and reliable flashdrives, look for Adata. And remember to ALWAYS HAVE BACKUPS OF YOUR DATA.
@mrtechie6810 Жыл бұрын
Don't use flash for backups! It's not reliable!
@RexxSchneider Жыл бұрын
@@mrtechie6810 Nonsense. It's as reliable as any other electronic component. What are you using for backup, floppy disks?
@googlex5273 Жыл бұрын
I use small size nail cutter to clip excess trace wires , it doesn't harm the boards wile cutting them off,,
@Senior. Жыл бұрын
*Hi Alex.* Try cooling down this chip? maeby some heatsink?
@trym2121 Жыл бұрын
My conclusion after watching this channel. If there is heat on a spot, then it's most likely due to short I could be wrong but cooling is most likely not the answer
@lambda7652 Жыл бұрын
just pore IPA over it or Aceton.
@buddy2016 Жыл бұрын
One note that is all i require!!!!!!
@beebstergames7348 Жыл бұрын
There is a memory cell on the drive that is going bad. The OS is trying to read from the drives file system, which is probably stored in the cell that is going bad. When it can't mount the file system it only shows the device, not the data or the file system. Then other cells may possibly still be good. There are software tools that can read the good cells and then put them in order to get the data off. You are not a data recovery expert, you are a micro-solderer guy. I knew what was wrong with the drive from your clients note, and I also knew how to possibly pull the data off. You should contact me the next time you are trying to recover data from a drive. I will tell you the best methods for doing that.
@DrVinylBcn Жыл бұрын
I believe you are a incredible professional, and maybe you didn't had a good day for something that's why u was in this case a bit straight.
@maunaker6 ай бұрын
Hello Alex! In that important piece from NASA, I see those pins that are floating. What are they connected to? Instead of being a USB flash drive, it seems more like a USB to SD card adapter.
@petervoros8221 Жыл бұрын
There is a LED on the end where the heat coming from could be that?👍
@NorthridgeFix Жыл бұрын
LED is flashing and working fine.
@darkbreed Жыл бұрын
@@NorthridgeFix it would be just a test if this LED is having a too high internal energie consumption by a defect.
@darkbreed Жыл бұрын
@@pidhsome i don't think so, he is a person like me everytime interested in the solution for a problem. during the long time he is fixing stuff he has adapted many things from the comments of his videos, like the use of fixing damaged pads with strips instead of using wires for everything. he is watching at the comments and trying stuff mentiond here often because he is a real technician.
@mikeypc3592 Жыл бұрын
@@pidhsome why exactly do you care? He clearly states there is a no fix fee in his terms and conditions. People either accept that or take their services elsewhere. He's entitled to charge for his time in investigating a problem regardless of whether he fixes it or not.
@chilly1661 Жыл бұрын
@@pidhsome ignorant
@clivewright7778 Жыл бұрын
Alex u re a very hard working man .👍🙏
@tripjet999 Жыл бұрын
These chips come either fried or baked. Your choice.
@shamsalfaisal Жыл бұрын
Came in for repair.
@TheThore Жыл бұрын
there are grey clips inside, you can reach inside from behind and push them away. so you can fully slide it out. This worked for my SanDisk drive, don't know if there are other versions
@infopackrat Жыл бұрын
If you attach it to a heatsink it may work long enough to copy off the files.
@amehboob28 Жыл бұрын
I wish someday you take this chip out and let us see whats inside it :)
@tinman9341 Жыл бұрын
Despite the outcome, it was a great lesson still my friend. Thanks for your insight!
@liucyrus22 Жыл бұрын
Just asking, could you have dumped the drive with PC3000? If not through USB then by grinding out the NAND flash traces on the PCB surface of the package?
@incandescentwithrage Жыл бұрын
He doesn't have PC3000 - not a data recovery specialist, just having a go.
@stabilini Жыл бұрын
Man, the led is fried, you can look at it in 5:33. Remove it, or replace it with something else.
@ralphj4012 Жыл бұрын
The test at 7:15 seemed to imply that the top pin was positive (not ground), but I can't see clearly how the USB A plug was wired.
@SimonRileyGhost141 Жыл бұрын
It come from the LED area. Try to remove it.
@oojimmyflip Жыл бұрын
these drives are supplied as Fat32 drives and the problems start when you convert them to NTFS I wonder if that is causing the overheating?
@kunka592 Жыл бұрын
The problems start when you start using them because they just aren't very reliable (all brands, as far as I'm concerned).
@Bobi1978.10 ай бұрын
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@PK01234 Жыл бұрын
Hi Alex, I think I remember you saying you attempt to repair 15 to 25 devices a day. What is the daily avg of successful repairs. Good work as normal.
@trym2121 Жыл бұрын
I'm more interested on Fix percentage for devices that hasn't and has been tampered, either total or per week or per month Maybe we can quantify something interesting like for example Alex's success drops (by how many %) for tampered devices.
@SubjectiveFunny Жыл бұрын
he often says 50/50 for most things.
@jaimeortega4940 Жыл бұрын
Couldn't you try to put the chip on a heat sink with a fan in an attempt to get enough time to suck some of the files off?
@MehmetSutas Жыл бұрын
On these type of stubborn plastic cases you may use YMI coorporation blb13 case glue remover liquid to open the case easily.
@elmariachi5133 Жыл бұрын
Are these surely glued, not welded?
@Joey-ir3lk Жыл бұрын
@@elmariachi5133 I had to open the same drive yesterday with the same issues as in the video. From the outside it looks like it's 2 pieces but from the inside it looks like one solid piece. I had to cut it open as well.
@elmariachi5133 Жыл бұрын
@@Joey-ir3lk Thanks!
@jackiemay9471 Жыл бұрын
are they ultrasonic weld
@Joey-ir3lk Жыл бұрын
@@jackiemay9471 idk man, I do electronics, not plastics 🤣 All I can say is that it looked like one solid piece from the inside and that cutting it open is probably the only way. But just like Alex said, let me know if you know a better way.
@GeeayezeeАй бұрын
I've got one of these SanDisk flash drives which was formatted once as system storage for a Google Chromecast. I don't have the Chromecast anymore and the flash drive isn't recognized because of the formatting. Is there a way to short it out or something so that it resets the drive entirely? I don't care about the data on it.
@Unknown-sz8kg Жыл бұрын
People destroy usb drives/sd cards all the time by pulling them out while the drive is still active in both pc's and 3d printers.
@georgiojansen7758 Жыл бұрын
arent some hot swappable
@kunka592 Жыл бұрын
I feel like that should only cause data loss, not hardware damage.
@888snuffy Жыл бұрын
Thats why they have a blade tip for soldering irons....
@totalgaara Жыл бұрын
oh i see that you have found my USB Key lost in the dimention :D
@schottepaul Жыл бұрын
Is the LED getting hot?
@Ghost572 Жыл бұрын
NorthridgeNoFix
@d0rk750 Жыл бұрын
despite being a monolithic design - a peek at the back side might be useful. sand the mask off the back of the pcb?
@d0rk750 Жыл бұрын
did the orientation of the usb connector reverse?
@GiGaSzS Жыл бұрын
Probably you just have to pull out the moving part. There should be a v shape inside the shell, preventing it from going too far out, but if you cut it, you can pull the stick out. At least Verbatim has this kind of mechanism.
@Fly2M3 Жыл бұрын
Man i respect what you do, and i think you are a very good hardware tech, but i think this problem could have been sorted by reprogramming the chip with a software , than just go right in and dismantle it like that, it is just an opinion, you should have tried some mounting options first (software) and then check the thermic output before going in. I know it is a tedious job, and i do appreciate the time and work you are putting in, but i think it would`ve helped you more if you went software first. Cheers, keep up the good work. You`re awesome !!
@kunka592 Жыл бұрын
Looks like a hardware fault... what the heck is any software going to do if the chip is failing? To the other comment @gtavc007 what is he doing that is making you think he sucks at dealing with customers? Because he didn't magically fix everything or spend way too long on something that he cannot repair? Also, running a youtube channel and producing videos takes time and effort, so if it does help his business, then how is that even a slight against him? I'm not even a big fanboy of this guy, I just like to call out people's crap.
@darinwells5448 Жыл бұрын
If calling out things let's not forget not correct readings all time testing components in circuit!
@Fly2M3 Жыл бұрын
@@kunka592 it was an opinion, i meant if you can retrieve data without doing the hardware process and it is about just that, retrieving the data, again in my opinion, i think a mounting software had been more useful, moreover when the client said it did appear to be working sometimes.. It was an opinion, i am not saying that i have the answer... There are many reasons why the flash drive didn't work...
@ChrisHiblerPinball Жыл бұрын
The blurred images make me think I’m having a stroke!
@stephenharris5729 Жыл бұрын
You can open the drive and power supply case using petrol in syringe
@vulgartech9192 Жыл бұрын
I put drives on a Linux box before I start to dissect, sometimes 'nix can mount a volume windows can't, even damaged.
@chosenli Жыл бұрын
The thing is ultra-speed USB 3 thumb drive generates a lot of heat, I have one that comes with an entire metal shell, and when it is plugged in for a couple of minutes it begins pretty hot to touch, so I use a thermal conductive double sided tape and stick it with a small aluminum heatsink fins on its body so it can spread the heat to more surface rather than in one spot. IQ 200! lol😅
@gamerdudegamerdude4961 Жыл бұрын
Yep, I have a Kingston usb 3.1 with metal shell that gets super hot & can even burn your skin.
@AmmarH413 Жыл бұрын
True that , mine overheats to the extent it lost the smd components on top . Any one has their values , please help
@BigEightiesNewWave Жыл бұрын
That brand failed me too. Never again that brand.
@noname-oe9jy Жыл бұрын
@2:09 Those full hard drives make me irrationally uncomfortable.
@USAS12 Жыл бұрын
I once had a microSD card that stopped reading and got super hot.
@tiporari Жыл бұрын
I just squeeze plastic shells in my bench vise. Crack the sonic welds and then they peel apart. I've been hurt by razor blades trying to open gummy plastic. Won't even attempt it anymore.
@icommandoi145 Жыл бұрын
sandwich it between 2 heatsinks to try and keep it cool, good luck.
@bblod4896 Жыл бұрын
Lesson: Use more then one USB drive for backups.
@grproteus Жыл бұрын
... or rather use proper backup and never leave important files on flash drives?
@georgiojansen7758 Жыл бұрын
preferably different brands
@helmchen1239 Жыл бұрын
i wouldn't use ANY flashdrive including SSD's for backups .. good old HDD in a USB case and done. if you are really paranoid, mirror them in the cloud :)
@mrtechie6810 Жыл бұрын
Don't use flash storage for backups! It's not reliable!
@maklogetrich2378 Жыл бұрын
@@mrtechie6810 not reliable? my 12 years old flash drive still alive and healthy :)
@memeconnect4489 Жыл бұрын
i always wondering what you do security wise in case the usb drive have some type of automatic virus install when you plug into the computer and test it
@mrtechie6810 Жыл бұрын
Turn off autorun. But there could still be a firmware-based attack.
@bigstone5124 Жыл бұрын
A beast, other words are superfluous 😎 amazing stuff
@Telee_Pawt Жыл бұрын
I have had success with opening similiar sealed cases by lightly crimping the case in a vice. It flexes the plastic and cracks the joint without damage mostly.
@mbahkimcil6472 Жыл бұрын
Is that flashdisk the light led can cos issue?
@kinnymonster Жыл бұрын
Amazed at how much $$$ people will pay for data recovery on a flash drive.
@AiSsak17 Жыл бұрын
بارك الله فيك
@shirasphysio2 ай бұрын
i was watching this video so that i can fix my hang up sandisk usb stick which hangs my laptop but works well with the car stereo , dont know what is the issue tried all fixes showing in youtube