Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

[chiefcrypto]

Hi all,

So a friend's USB drive stopped being recognized by windows all of a sudden, I said I'd have a look at it, thinking it would be a case of corrupted data and windows refusing to mount the drive due to that.
Plugged it into my Linux machine and there's still no response, looks like it's hardware related.

Opened it up to check over the PCB and connections and low and behold, I can't see a PCB. Now it must obviously be under the metal shroud, but I've never dealt with a USB drive like this before.

If anyone on here has experience with this type of drive and could provide some tips/advice on how to go about at least getting to the PCB that'd be much appreciated.

Thanks

[chiefcrypto]

Re: Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

Update. I've gotten the plastic off and the connector slid out, expected to see some sort of controller, but this is all I was met with.

[stj]

Re: Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

whats on the other side?

[chiefcrypto]

Re: Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

Whole lotta nothing...

[SMDFlea]

Re: Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

If that brown mark above the letter C is a burn mark its toast .

[noppa]

Re: Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

It's a monolith flash drive, a real pain to recovery!
BTW in the second picture on the bottom left there's
a SMD component marked J that looks like a fuse.

[chiefcrypto]

Re: Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

Uh oh I'm going to have to check again! Guessing a component on the other side has burnt out in that case?

[chiefcrypto]

Re: Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

It's a monolith flash drive, a real pain to recovery!
BTW in the second picture on the bottom left there's
a SMD component marked J that looks like a fuse.

Possibly a blown fuse? That'd be nice, guess I'll test that first.

[Retro-Hipster]

Re: Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

That really would be nice. ahaha. If it is a blown fuse, I would probably first check if you have a short on either side of the fuse to ground.. If so, then something in the chip might be shorted out. :/

And as noppa mentioned, monolithic chips can be a pretty horrible thing to recover. lol Also hard to recover without some specialized tools often. ^.^;

Here's hoping it's just a blown fuse!

[diif]

Re: Sandisk Ultra USB 3.0 Data Recovery

Sadly it's not the fuse.