USB drive DESTROYED by customer; Louis attempts data recovery anyway.

[@909sickle]

Rossman Repair is a shelter for abused circuit boards.

[@tdomingues89]

Poor boards, they get sexual abuse to being wet lol

[@PCReloaded]

@@tdomingues89 xD

[@MickeyD2012]

Rossmann's Home for Unloved Technology.

[@markiangooley]

The Original Gamer someone needs to draw at least a parody scene in the style of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends

[@JOSEPHZZ123]

I love the wording!

[@KenaiUlfr]

Louis to flash drive: “Who hurt you flash drive?” Flash Drive: “I need an adult”

[@hycron1234]

Louis: *"I am an adult!"*

[@erikburzinski8248]

@@hycron1234 flash drive: " no your not "

[@Gkokkinakis2]

@@erikburzinski8248 flashdrive i need a better adult

[@pr0xZen]

@@Gkokkinakis2 _I need an adulter adult_

[@mrshumancar]

That smooth ad at the end that I didn't even want to skip.

[@pepefubias7654]

it is true i wathched it intensely to repair myself from the video

[@hellofyou]

I love how the chip is literally floating / drowning in flux and you keep adding more.

[@OmniscientWarrior]

No such thing as too much flux.

[@keltonnewman4052]

I love that Louis consoles the USB flash drive by talking sweetly to it: "Poor little flash drive. Who hurt you?"

[@DJAstroStudios]

Kelton Newman 1:25

[@slap_my_hand]

My first experience with microsoldering was replacing an 0402 resistor while only having access to a 30 year old soldering station, lead free solder, some cheap tweezers and a crappy magnifying glass. My solder joints still looked better than this thing before the repair.

[@tuttocrafting]

Louis evolved: from scaping with the 10USD tweezers to 50USD micro-pencil!

[@stumbling]

If it costs more it must be better at scraping, right?

[@xStrayMongrelx]

So I am guessing this was a case of a dropped laptop with the USB Drive sticking out the side, and it snapped off, and then they gave it to a monkey to fix before bringing it to a professional?

[@CoolKoon]

I'm afraid that the monkey who tried the repair was probably the owner itself...

[@CoolKoon]

@@stevethea5250 That part of the video reflects to my answer HOW exactly?

[@sugarbooty]

@@CoolKoon It's comforting

[@CoolKoon]

@@sugarbooty That's nice and all, but still has nothing to do with my or the OP's comment.

[@3a.m.284]

CoolKoon nobody asked

[@MandrakeDCR]

Reminds me of wayyy back story. 5-1/4" Floppy storage days. A customer of ours kept complaining that his backup disks would go bad after a week or so. We replaced the disk drive, we eventually gave him a temp replacement PC while we brought his in and ran tests until we were blue in the face. Could not reproduce it. Meanwhile he calls in and says even the new computer was wiping out his backups now. I went to the site and he showed me that his software disk worked fine (accounting stuff), but then he put in one of his backup disks and nothing... just a read error. I asked him to try a few others and he reached over to get his other backups - conveniently stuffed behind his phone - between it and the wall where it sat on his desk. None of them worked. Only a couple of them would even format. Then it just hit me as I loked at that old phone. It was an old, huge, heavy, black, office desk phone. I went over and unscrewed the earpiece cap - sure enough, the old heavy magnets. I made up some goofy garbage about how since he was making backups for his customers, I wanted him to start using this case (I had plenty of those simple plastic 10-disk folding cases everyone had back then) and handed him one. Keep it next to the PC instead of the phone to help protect the backups, and see if it helped. Never had another problem with disk erasure, and he ended up with stacks of those cases full of disks over the years until HDDs and ZIP disks became things :)

[@elantric]

Reminds me of as story from the 1970's of a musician who kept his reel to reel master magnetic tapes of his band next to his old Western Electric Telephone - the tapes had severe drop outs = then back tracking , it was discovered everytime the old Telephone rang, it had degaussed the magnetic tape from the EMF Flux field from the internal ringer solenoid inside the old phone -

[@lsdzheeusi]

The last time I was this early, the cockroach eggs hadn’t hatched yet.

[@everzeber420]

Cockroach eggs are pretty nasty I will agree, but all that stuff on that motherboard was "shit" cockroach shit and lots of it

[@Tsiikki]

Did he burn his floor so dropped eggs will not survive?

[@karicowo]

Says that wicking with a micropencil destroys the tip. _2 minutes later..._ *proceeds to wick with the micropencil*

[@Ping12358]

hello brother.

[@sexycooljulesverne]

@@Ping12358 haha inside joke xddddd

[@tnexus13]

You must be new here 😂

[@jaysonedson]

@@Ping12358 Aren't you only supposed to respond with a certain phrase? You LOSE sir. GOOD DAY!

[@Ping12358]

orange man bad

[@CaLiDaRi]

I have couple of vinyl records that my cow stepped on , please recover the music for me.

[@darkshadowsx5949]

Don't let your cow in the house. Place all the pieces back together and throw it in the trash bin. you can probably find the record in mp3 format online.

[@GeoMatRay]

Stop using the cow's hooves as styluses!

[@riccardoz2953]

@@darkshadowsx5949 mp3 record format is so shitty compared to warm analog vinil data. over

[@darknes4150]

@@riccardoz2953 false

[@CoolKoon]

@@darknes4150 No, it's true. mp3 is a LOSSY compression format thus anything coming out of it will be always of inferior quality than what a quality, undamaged vinyl can offer.

[@Sayua-chan]

Next time you see someone smirk, report them to the authorities! or CNN!

[@CanuckGT]

*Smiles in Caucasian*

[@KingHalbatorix]

Didn't orwell literally write about a sister offense to thought crime which he actually named *facecrime*

[@origineo]

10:54. You're welcome.

[@JoeBagso]

This was very much needed

[@JakeLoeppky]

Anybody else find it annoying he's saying were instead of was?

[@JoeBagso]

@@JakeLoeppky since were would actually be the more correct way of saying it . .. who am I kidding yeah that's not how the song goes

[@asadullah6047]

thank you

[@DurzoHighwind]

This time I ate before I came to watch this video.

[@rossmanngroup]

An informed and experienced viewer.

[@sexycooljulesverne]

This time I came before I watched this video

[@SwapPartLLC]

Great, so when you vomit, it will be more than just bile.

[@kronnie13]

What is wrong with you? I love eating while watching him repair boards.

[@baxkill]

@@kronnie13 Depends, some repairs are just corrosion or Louis flicking stuff around, but some Macs come with some nasty shit, unless you are into that

[@StormWaltz73]

Rossmann Group: Special Victims Unit

[@ChannelReuploads9451]

"Where did the bad man touch you, Mr Flash Drive ?" On my PPBUS !.

[@traktor-et9xr]

You are the Bob Ross of electronic repairs

[@MiGujack3]

Bob Rossmann

[@kellerrobert80]

The flux whisperer.

[@ahmedp800]

Checkout Voultar channel for proper Bob Ross soldering ;)

[@sav22rem22]

@@ahmedp800 I’ll stick with Louis

[@MikheilGhvinianidze]

Louis: "Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Don't you wish your girlfriend was freek like me? I have two holes there."

[@mediapark101]

It's amazing the video wasn't copyright flagged after singing those two lines to himself.

[@raydeen2k]

"Show us on the schematic where the bad human touched you."

[@brandonupchurch7628]

Ah the customer with the $5 3M Wal-Mart iron strikes again.

[@esven9263]

Hey I've worked miracles with a 5$ 3M iron. The problem here is someone with no experience and too much ambition. It looks like originally the usb connector sheared off, which is pretty common from the drive getting bumped while it's plugged in. The pads around the connector are just the most aggressively sheared off so it seems like that was the original damage. The customer tried to fix it themselves but learned that the pads were gone underneath the connector so they couldn't just solder it back into place. You can see all the mess from that original fix, and it's covered in more dirt than the rest of the bad solder jobs indicating not only that it was the first thing they attempted to do. Presumably they got the idea to buy a donor drive and transfer the flash from one drive to the other at some point, but it took them a while to actually do that so the drive sat somewhere covered in flux and collected filth. With the donor board finally in hand they started to desolder the nand from the original. That IC has a lot of pins though, so they tried to flood it with solder to melt multiple pins at once. They are probably just using a 30W iron though so that's just not going to happen. So now because of all the solder they can't even really properly melt individual pads any more. So they're now jabbing an iron into half melted solder, trying to get enough of the chip workable to start removing it and it isn't working. Then they try and lift the pins one by one with the iron they get some to move but it rips the pads on some of the others. At some point they realize it's a mess and that this is only the beginning. They'll have to carefully desolder the memory from the donor board as well then solder the old chip back into place. So they push the pins back into a semi normal position and pack up the drive to get someone who actually has tools and experience to do it. Only now the drive has solder blobs, flux, dirt, and damage from everything they've done. Where originally it just had a broken connector. If they'd just tried to place a few jumpers from the connector pins to an appropriate connection point they'd have actually been fine with a crappy iron.

[@tin2001]

I've done data recovery on many a snapped off USB flash disk using a crappy cheap soldering iron... As Esven mentioned, its just a case of soldering on a new connector to appropriate pads/pins. I used to use cables from dead mouses because they were nice and thin. Customer never wanted the stick back - just the data.

[@brandonupchurch7628]

Yeah but using a cheap non temperature controlled iron is a good way to delaminate the remaining part of the pad off the board if you care about getting the data off of something you shouldn't use a cheap direct mains iron.

[@brandonupchurch7628]

I know exactly what I'm talking about the last time I bought a crappy direct mains iron it was 3M branded 3M might make great paper, adhesives, polymers, and all kinds of industrial supplies but the direct mains they made that were sold at Walmart are crap just like every other cheap direct mains iron.

[@A_Man_In_His_Van]

@@brandonupchurch7628 it's contract crap that Walmart talks them into branding. Walmart does that to a lot of companies with strong branding. They convince them to slap their strong brand name on a cheap ass Wal Mart sourced item, and then only sell it at Walmart for less!

[@danwic]

Listening to Louis's smooth calm voice fixing poor broken electronics :)

[@georgigeeksky8349]

It's fun watching you do data recovery too! When for the first time i began job at mobile repair shop i did smartphone repair on a phone that came without usb port and the solder pads were ripped off. When i started cleaning it with the iron more fell off and it was terrible. The bad thing is that my employee didn't bought me a microscope so without a microscope i soldered wires onto the new port and then kept it under a tiny magnifying glass then i soldered it on the test points that were on the phone's board.

[@TheArea51Rider]

My god. A lake of flux and a huge soldering tip. Whatever works I guess.

[@reifjames]

This is such a perfect example for so many soldering lessons and absolutely NOT what to do! This is the video that motivated me step into the rushing river of repair!

[@dragoonduneman4161]

Love your ad at the end. So much joy in it. better then most ive seen...And you show quality work to the public and not hiding behind doors.

[@neonhomer]

That that ad was dripping with sarcasm... and I think he was being serious!

[@nylvon]

Louis thank you so much for getting that filter, it was really harsh on the eyes to see all those bright reflections. Keep at it.

[@arthurteeshuke8718]

Louis, you're supposed to lower brightness to basically the lowest levels possible when you zoom in to show anything on solder as it reflects light too much when the surroundings are so much darker. When I take pics of my solder under the scope I sometimes use the lowest brightness but usually it's at around 2 out of 10.

[@TheTwick]

I dropped my IBM 360 Model 91 to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I want Paul to do data recovery. Where do I send the wreckage? ;-)

[@damienw4958]

Иван Снежков could be worse, could be a wireless place

[@MrIggybo]

sendyouribm.com

[@QruisS]

I don't think they can repair the crater left by that thing....

[@kingneutron1]

Jazus, that's the worst damage I've ever seen to a poor innocent circuit board - almost looks like dude dropped it in acid Incredible that you were able to recover data - brilliant work!

[@nbrown5907]

I have accidently washed and even ran one through the dryer one time and they still work fine. What happened to that one? The dryer one was in a protected pocket though. Thanks for standing up for these abused chips ;-)

[@darkshadowsx5949]

as long as its not powered on water has no effect unless it corrodes traces.

[@zachicusmaximus5551]

The USB connector broke off it and the user went into ape mode and randomly soldered stuff

[@Labyrnthdom]

Since the connector was ripped out. It also flexed the pcb and caused cracked and ripped joints around the chips. Video game carts do it also.

[@hellterminator]

@@darkshadowsx5949 Yup. I have a 10 year old flash drive that's been washed at least half a dozen times and it's still working. Last week I washed my (fully charged) Nitecore Tube and it was corroded to hell and the charge switching transistor was blown (no idea how that even happened).

[@photonboy999]

Louis Rossmann, Apple could have done that faster: Step 1: Smash with hammer Step 2: tell customer they are out of luck but owe them $1200 Step 3: convince customer to buy another Apple device. (I'm sarcastically referring to your GREAT piece about how Apple repair would replace motherboards rather than wait for the code to unlock the laptop)

[@C2H5OHist]

I played a Mr. Clinton video to my cat and he got really upset, haven't watched you since.

[@omegaelixir]

"...don't delay buy today." Missing Again, TRIGGERED

[@TuRb0PoWeR]

@Louis Rossmann The pad under C2 wasn't hiding under the dirt, it actually came off the board and was flapped up towards the camera. You flapped it down when "cleaning" it. 8:25

[@1kreature]

Come on Louis! You know your way around shitty designs enough (Caugh, Apple, caugh) to know a sneaky layout when you see it. That pin with the missing pad was not only soldermasked, it was silkscreened under to provide a protective layer for that trace they decided to route under it.

[@royjonesrampage6684]

that 80s commercial tho XD

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The only sponsor he trusts, because he owns it!

[@Deplorable_Nerfherder]

also his modified version of an 80's Sir Mix-A-Lot song... seems suspicious XD

[@octapc]

People try their best blind folded

[@Scythrael]

I do need Data recovery. Are you able to solder a Starfleet android back together? He was sorta vaporized in a Scimitar class warship explosion.

[@stavinaircaeruleum2275]

We need him back.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Every other episode of Voyager they keep going on about "losing" the doctor. He is a hologram and completely computer generated - apparently all they keep is the base templates, and never backup afterwards.

[@ahuman9860]

0:27 subliminal picture of Paul Daniels?

[@aisback1990]

jane doe jup

[@charlieinsingapore]

Worst job we had come in was a woman's USB drive that had a years worth of un-backed-up photos including her family with her father just before he died, it was in a laptop that fell off a coffee table and snapped off the connector. She took it to her local computer experts* who completely screwed it. I sent it to our board repair guy in another state but there was nothing left to work with. * Highly technically qualified to take boxed components and assemble a PC, but not qualified enough to know that if you don't know how to fix something, say so and don't f it up even more

[@adammclainjr9275]

My guy Louis has not changed im 8 years I been watching. Just a solid guy

[@bopinhojr4019]

IN THIS GUY WE TRUST

[@notmark2745]

Well, thats another way of data encryption

[@wiretamer5710]

'if we are going to go to all this work to bring it back we might as well make it a work of art' ... the very essence of culture

[@AboveSomething]

the comment section under your videos are (most of the time) just as entertaining as the video itsel! much love to louis from switzerland

[@pickelsvonbrine]

I thought that NAND was popcorned for a second. When I was a data recovery engineer we had a few of those. It was nice having drives come in that were as straight forward as this one though. Hated dealing with some drives were the controller died and a donor didn't work. Noting like having to recover adaptives!

[@ClydeDay]

@Louis Rossmann If I EVER need data recovery or work done you sold me on who I want to work on my stuff.

[@kjamison5951]

Been there, done that. The person managed to snap off the USB plug which broke about a dozen tracks in total. They actually wanted to use the thumb drive after I fixed it but it was only good for recovering the data to a hard disk folder and burning to a DVD data disk.

[@jeffweirauch8159]

The longer the wire, the bigger the fire!

[@fatihnri2484]

Customer DESTROYED USB drive with FACTS and LOGIC.

[@zignasihmasmas4598]

TFW spreading outdated Ben Isrealpiro memes in 2019

[@zignasihmasmas4598]

@D.O.A. You sound like Ricegum now

[@ExploringFate]

16:20 Awesome commercial. ❤

[@homemedia4325]

I wan't to buy a broken mackbook just so I can send it in and watch more vids... i have learned a lot on this channel over the months!!

[@C2H5OHist]

You are in luck mate, I'm looking to unload one :D

[@myronww]

A number 15 scalpel blade is really good for cutting traces and peeling them up. Just remember not to put excessive lateral pressure on the blade. They break and go flying if you put too much lateral pressure.

[@fallofshadows2209]

When you started baby talking the board, my dog started looking around like "who's talking to me?"

[@MessyPointedBlob]

FYI there are no redundant power pins on nand chips. many chips that use small die processes use multiple power pins to bring power to different parts of the die to help in die layout (avoid needing to figure out how to bridge connections internally) among other reasons.

[@dennischristensen5892]

you saved a donor right there! the hospitals would be amazed of those skills

[@rars0n]

Black green white red, left to right. I've looked it up enough times that I don't have to anymore. I usually just use a USB cable that I cut the end off to make temporary connections.

[@BrianB14471]

On that missing pad - just scrape the soldermask off the trace right there and attach a small piece of bus wire. Don't guess on what the pin function is.

[@aserta]

You should grind a small hook on the end of a solder iron tip, that way, you can hook on to pins like that with ease. They actually sell these kinds of pins, but they aren't made quite right, you want almost a hook, works really nice for super, super small tracing.

[@IAmTheRealKen]

This is so cool, this is like watching surgery. Great video.

[@AlanAshton]

I feel like I’m watching Bob Ross resurrected.

[@woodenhoe]

Bob Rossmann

[@leb120]

The missing pad at 4:23 is supposed to be missing. That pin wasn't needed so they decided to run a trace under it. Also, to help make sure the pin doesn't rub through the solder mask they added a silkscreen rectangle under it as a second layer of insulation. Just a tip for the next time you run across this.

[@bluefurr7320]

I don't think I've ever had this much emotional attachment to a flash drive

[@mattrisen6694]

That shit hurt my eyes, I feel as though I have been wronged by having witnessed what had been done to that drive. Well done on saving it.

[@markhandrahan4520]

The board was posing as a Macbook.

[@carlclouseriii8519]

He definitely lives by the moto "the bigger the gob the better the job"

[@artinyyk]

I’m surprised anyone looked at that drive and thought, “Oh yeah, it’ll definitely be worth my time to recover from that”.

[@wingracer1614]

It's not the drive that's worth it, it's the data. For all we know it was a bitcoin wallet worth millions.

[@PAWTeamUnited]

its cleaner than the Last Macbook Atleast No Cockroaches

[@Crazy___Ginger]

How do people half ass repairs this badly?

[@Zulfar-bd9tc]

By quarter assing repairs.

[@MattZelda]

They half assed twice

[@n-steam]

I don't know, I'm just a natural at it. Though, if it was something that had data on that I'd be willing to spend $400 on recovering, I probably would just spend the $400 on recovery. I leave my botch jobs for the stuff that was going in the bin anyway.

[@darkshadowsx5949]

shaky hands and too much ego?

[@Patchuchan]

Wrong tools and probably never used a soldering iron before?

[@bluephreakr]

Remember to always buy two drives. _Always buy two drives._ If a retailer has a special for a PC with backup media, _buy that_ if the PC suits your needs. If you're going to be super-cheap about it, partition your drive to keep your personal stuff outside of your system drive in case you ever have to format system or migrate to a new machine. Ideally you want to keep _two_ external storage devices connected at all times; one for your personal data and one for your backup of that, but not everybody has that kind fo money to blow.

[@scottrobinson4611]

That fucked pad on the board isn't important for the function of the drive. You can find the pinout for these on the Flash Extractor TSOP-48 page. The outer sets of leg-pad connections on TSOPs are redundant. Just the ~16 middle legs on either end are used.

[@rars0n]

Holy shit, that USB drive got wrecked. It looks like it probably would've been pretty easy to work with before they molested it, too.

[@zaprodk]

It's quite common for some of the legs of the NAND-chip to have no pads under them, but solder mask and silkscreening to indicate this. It seemed in the video that that's the case with the "missing pad"

[@MessyPointedBlob]

This is usually because NAND chips can operate in 8-bit or 16-bit bus mode in the same package and the designer can choose one over the other. The extra bits/pins become useless in 8-bit mode.

[@photonboy999]

RAID USB? Are there any USB thumb drives that have redundant backup built in? Seems like a really great idea. Here's what I'd love: 1) dual-ended USB drive for redundant CONTROLLER chip 2) 3x RAID1 or whatever makes most sense (i.e. 3x8GB = 8GB) 3) built-in diagnostics and an LED to confirm everything works

[@remingtonhutchison55]

Cleaner, happier, more productive!

[@DuctTapedGoat]

Lol I can just imagine Louis's reaction to a Duct Taped Goat repair, I am in there with a standard solder gun, extra tips and a file, and a paint stripping gun, no wick and no flux. Its actually really inspirational because it looks a lot easier with a micro pencil and flux.

[@shivamvaid601]

There should be a soldering iron with a central tunnel with vacuum suction. Like a syringe sized tunnel to suck up soldier.

[@theonlybuzz1969]

Very nice work there, really enjoyed watching you work and picked up some useful information as well, thanks and have a great weekend. 👍🇬🇧👍

[@nononsenseBennett]

Always fascinating to watch you work Louis. You are an artist and have found your niche.

[@Aygross]

The best ad ever

[@MultiDarkZen]

Louis talks to his flash drives like how I talk to my cats

[@Zenodilodon]

How about a .85 inch hard drive? Heck I am struggling just to figure out how to hook it up to anything let alone move data on and off of it. I set myself up for these kinds of defeating tasks for the shear sake of it.

[@Kavukamari]

"Do YOU like throwing your electronics in puddles of sewage? Are YOU an irresponsible owner who breaks everything? Just call Rossman Group! We might not WANT to fix your nightmare device, but we sure as hell CAN do it!"

[@davewolf8869]

Why not scratch the resin from the trace at the broken pad, and bridge it with a strand from a small gauge wire? I have done that before and it works quite well. You have my sincerest admiration for your skills, Louis. Oh wait, you did the exact thing in 11:00 XD

[@deansmith4752]

I sent a hard drive to Seagate for data recovery.... the controller had smoked and I needed it replaced. They sent me back a NEW drive as their process is to wipe all data on all received hard drives - despite the assurance that this would not happen

[@geovani60624]

I just found one usb drive that droped and didn't work anymore, now looking a bit closer i found one pin on the flash drive that got pulled up, i'll try to solder it back in place with my cheap soldering iron with a bad tip, wish me luck

[@pr0xZen]

You can _hear_ the grin on Louis's face at the end of the outtro ad.

[@thetechguy2262]

This is why you should always backup your data and have multiple backups.

[@hellterminator]

4:40 IIRC pin 23 on TSOP-48 ONFI NANDs is NC (although it's usually tied to ground), so you should be fine.

[@JoeBagso]

That sincere "awwwe"

[@CKOD]

I applaud whoever sent that to you to recognizing that they should stop trying to swap the flash with just a few shorted pins, a couple fucked pads, and a blobby cap. Could have been a lot worse.

[@Mr.Unacceptable]

I have done this so many times. Normally by the time I get it I have to solder the chip on a doner board.

[@WeaponsGG]

Man he really sold the ending like a sleazy car salesman. I love it 😂

[@tsusai]

I have a BOX. A BOX of those exact, cheap ass 1GB drives. DOA rate out of the box: 60-70% (Max chain of 4 in a row, out of the box, trying to get a drive letter) Failure rate a month or two later: 30% I'm tempted to crack one open now.

[@faridwakim]

Well they're dead anyway so I'd do it if i were you

[@aserta]

The heck did he manage to do to it. I've been using a naked USB stick for almost a decade now and haven't managed to destroy it like that, been in my pocket, with my keys in my backpack with rocks and tools....

[@jorgemjalves]

Thank you Louis for your share. :) :)

[@terrancejohnson2827]

I'm not a professional at it but in the future if you use a sewing needle along with the soldering iron it'll help you bend the legs back a little easier. oh I almost forgot you'll have to go at the pins one at a time and it'll take up a little time but a little bit easier. Oh and I may have waited before i put that other liquidy stuff on there which I don't remember what it's called because it makes the job a little harder. Less of course you're trying to waterproof the board. Please let me know if I'm wrong. But overall fun to watch

[@ScoopDogg]

That's some of the neatest soldering work I've ever seen, and I've seen some soldering : ) Top Job pal