Flash drive not recognized

[gilm0re3]

A while ago I dropped my laptop off my bed while my Corsair Flash Voyager Go was in one of the USB ports. Unfortunately, when I picked up my laptop off the ground I noticed that the laptop basically landed directly on the flash drive after a three foot drop. On top of that, when I disconnected and then reinserted the flash drive to see if it was ok, nothing happened. I tried plugging it into my phone using the micro USB end, and still nothing. After some fiddling around I discovered that while Windows Explorer wasn't recognizing the drive, if I had it plugged in in just the right position I could at least get Windows to trigger the "device connected" noise, and Device Manager also recognizes the name of the device in the Disk Drives dropdown. However, that's where my luck has ended, as the Device Manager properties tab for the drive shows nothing in the Volumes tab of the disk properties. 

 

Has anyone ever experienced a USB drive behaving like this after hard impact, or know anything at all about getting Windows to see an actual volume with files when the drive is connected?

[Team_RGB]

Play around in Disk Management, just right click and select stuff until it works again. JK but there might be some more useful info in Disk Management?

[WereCatf]

The PCB inside the USB-stick probably got twisted and some component -- most likely the flash-chip itself -- had its solder-pads come loose. No software is going ti fix that.

[gilm0re3]

1 minute ago, Team_RGB said:

Play around in Disk Management, just right click and select stuff until it works again. JK but there might be some more useful info in Disk Management?

With all the playing around with the drive I've done it has yet to show up in Disk Management. 

[Team_RGB]

Just now, gilm0re3 said:

With all the playing around with the drive I've done it has yet to show up in Disk Management. 

That's actually helpful -- yeah I mean, to me that means @WereCatf's probably right and the flash drive is fubar

[zombienerd]

If you can disassemble the drive, I'd bet you find a broken solder joint, or a cracked PCB.  It may be repairable if you have the knowledge and tools, or know someone else that does.

[gilm0re3]

5 minutes ago, zombienerd said:

If you can disassemble the drive, I'd bet you find a broken solder joint, or a cracked PCB.  It may be repairable if you have the knowledge and tools, or know someone else that does.

Here's the drive all disassembled. When I took it apart the Micro USB connector end was broken off from the USB A end of the drive. It looks like if the exposed brown color is part of the actual flash chip, it very well could be a gonner.

 

[zombienerd]

Yep, that's toast.  RIP Flash Drive.