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I think I got jinxed or something... i was in the process of making a vid and my knee hit my flash drive and bent it and all my data, not to mention school data and other stuff is now stuck on a USB that doesn't work. I can't get the computer to regonize it because its not working so all my stuff is gone.

does anybody know how to recover the data on a USB and possibly put it into another USB even though the place to get it into a computer is now broken? idunno i am freaking out all my school work was on it... does anybody know what i can do. and until i get another USB which will probably be a while

Answer 1

If there is more then one USB port you can use that. You can get an adapter to make one USB port to serve as 4 or whatever the adapter has on it. Check at WalMart or other place. They are not expensive.
There is however the risk that you may have a short in your computer due to the broken USB. Make sure that that one is disconnected as you do not want to fry your computer.

Answer 2

I don't have any experience of recovering the data from a USB drive with a broken connector, but there are many firms that can do it, if you or your parents can afford it. Here's a link to one. They have a toll-free number where you can ask them what they can do and how much they charge. Its supposed to be a quick service. Also, you can google for 'usb broken drive recovery' (see link) to find others, if you want to compare prices.

Also, you may find that there are up-to-date or recent copies of your files sitting in the temporary and cache file folders of your computers hard-disk. If you run Windows Explorer, you can use the file search facility to see if they are on the hard-disk (Drive C:). This is only if you can remember either the filename of the file or a text-string that occurs in the file.

Use Start button, Run, type 'Explorer' and press return, then 'search'. Enter a filename or a string to search for and click search. It will display a list of files on the right. If you can't remember the filenames, just search for *.doc for all Microsoft Word files or whatever, then look at the results. The search can take several minutes or half an hour as it has to search the whole disk. Check the file dates in the results to see how up-to-date they are.

Can you add more detail to your question to clear up whether its the connector on the USB drive thats broken or the USB socket of the computer?

In the future, you need to make daily backups, to a folder on your computer or by zipping the contents of the USB flash drive up in a single file using Winzip etc and emailing it to yourself on Yahoo Email. It has about 1GB of storage for messages plus attached files.

If the USB drive is fine and its the computer USB connector thats broken, then take the drive to someone else's computer, copy the data off and then think how you want to get it back onto your own PC. You could zip it up into a file and email it to your Yahoo email account or burn it to a CD/DVD (ask how on here if needed).

If the USB connector on the computer is broken, then ask on here how to get it repaired or how to replace the USB interface as cheaply as possible. Some computers have USB connectors on the front and the back. If there's a spare one, then its not urgent to fix the broken one, unless its short-circuiting the power-supply.

eBay has cheap replacement USB flash drives if needed.

Answer 3

in case the usb port is broken ont he computer u can use another usb port in the computer or go to ur friend place and use their computer and write all the data on to the cd

if the usb flash drive is broken u have to contact the people who will recover data from ur flash drive, if u r from the united states u can contact the drive saver,
1800 - 440 - 1904

Answer 4

There is no way you can get data from a physically damaged USB drive. Sorry for the loss of your data.