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ShadowWolf810
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Hey guys, so my dog chewed up the plastic on a USB stick while I was gone. I was able to pull the whole board out, and it doesn't seem to be broken in any way. When I plug it into a USB port, the light on the stick comes on and Windows dings every time you plug it in or unplug it with the usual USB sound, however no drive shows up in explorer or disk management. 

 

Can you guys think of anything else to try to save it? 

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Disk management/partition manager

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31 minutes ago, ShadowWolf810 said:

 

 

Oops missed that, sorry

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3 minutes ago, ShadowWolf810 said:

You're good, I can't really think of anything else to try. It seems to be functioning and recognized by Windows, but the drive isn't showing up :/

Try it on another OS and/or with a deeper tool like gparted

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7 minutes ago, ShadowWolf810 said:

So tried it on Linux, comes up as Phison 2307 PRAM.... But I can't format it or anything... Hmm. 

A root privileged gparted couldn't do anything?

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9 minutes ago, LtStaffel said:

A root privileged gparted couldn't do anything?

No it shows up as "No Media" according to google it means that the connection between the memory controller and the storage isn't working. Tried a couple things but it might just be dead unfortunately. You can see it in Diskpart, but it gives an error if you try to create a partition on it

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