Restore flash drive Transcend. Step-by-step instruction

More recently, we have stored music, video and electronic documents on CDs or floppy disks. However, these carriers gradually disappeared, they were replaced by a much more compact and capacious flash drive, USB or just a USB flash drive. It serves as a reliable enough "storehouse" of any information, but even a USB-drive Sometimes breaks. What should I do if the USB flash drive does not boot or is not detected on the system? Discard a wasteful drive and buy a new one if there is nothing important left on it. But sometimes there remains a thesis or a single copy of an important document, it has to be restored. Restoring the flash drive Transcend does not differ from the same "operation" with the drive of any other brand.

So, let's consider a situation in which the flash drive "hung" during the recording and was not detected when reconnecting. At the same time, USB appeared in the list of devices, but the disc manager did not show its icon. These symptoms indicate a controller failure. Any drive, including a Transcend flash drive, is based on a control chip or controller. Various power failures or problems block the controller, and inaccessible sectors appear on the USB. If the flash drive "Hangs" due to a system failure, you should do the following:

1. Identify the name and the company-manufacturer of the controller.
2. Find the utility developed by this company.
3. Transfer the control chip to the test mode and restore.

Let's start the recovery of the Transcend flash drive, dismantling it for details - that's the easiest way to find out the chip manufacturer. Disassembles the USB drive easily, just bend the edge of the sticker on its case, press a thin object on the latch that hides under the sticker, and gently pull the connector. The controller, in fact, is a printed circuit board. On one side is a chip, and on the other - a memory chip. Both sides contain the data necessary for recovery.

Having decided with the controller manufacturer, we will continue to restore the Transcend flash drive. The next step is to find a utility from the manufacturer. It must support the controller with this number. You can download the utility utility from the resource that distributes the free software. If no application flash drive is not a "view It "should be put into testing mode. What kind of contacts need to be closed for this is indicated in the drive's documentation. After finding the suitable program, you should install the factory driver attached to it. You can find it in the folder with the utility installed.

Now begins the direct restoration of the USB flash drive Transcend. First, load the utility and start the search for the drive. After waiting for it to be displayed in the program, we press the "Start" button, thus launching the diagnostics and formatting of the drive. It should be remembered that all data written on the USB flash drive will be erased. To restore the maximum volume of a flash drive, it is worth formatting it twice. After the message on the successful completion of the "operation", turn off the factory driver, return the USB flash drive to normal operating mode and restart it.

I hope, my story about how to recover data on a flash drive, will often come in handy in a desperate situation.