I'm a GCSE student in the UK (obviously) and today my USB suddenly stopped working. I GET a message saying that it can't recognise my USB. It's a 4gb Memory 2 Go. I've tested it on 4 computers. 3 Windows XP (SP3 Home & Pro), 1 Windows 7 (Home prem.). I didn't work on any of them.

I had so much work on it, most of it's due in within 2-3 weeks.

I would greatly appreciate any help on this problem.You can try to recover the data using some available free recovery programs. However due to the common results on so many computers i think you will be BEST served by trying to recreate that which was on the drive. It won't help in this instance but portable DRIVES are very susceptible to data corruption when certain phenomenon occur.So if it is data that is very important GIVEN the low costs of flash drives (particularly the size you have mentioned) make more than one copy.Here is a link to one of many that you can try.
http://www.easeus.com/resource/drive/usb-flash-drive.htm
truenorthThanks for the advice. Unfortunately, as you probably know the computer doesn't recognise the USB so I don't think that any data recovery software will work.

I'll try see if any local shops are able to recover the data. Quote from: flyingspan on April 28, 2012, 06:49:00 PM

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, as you probably know the computer doesn't recognise the USB so I don't think that any data recovery software will work.

I'll try see if any local shops are able to recover the data.