Not hard drive, but flash drive. BTW, as of a couple months ago, I've been shuffling between 3 =20 computers and data-syncing has been tedious (and one is a netbook in =20 my car's glove box so don't want to leave any data on it). So I got a =20 32GB flash drive for my active & personal data and all machines have =20 apps installed and more static data (datasheets, etc). Worked well =20 for over a month, until today's failure. And of course it happens =20 when I miss one backup. Cheers, -Neil. Quoting Nicola Perotto : > Neil, > you have one "enclosure" and one harddisk. > I understand that the enclosure is bad not the harddisk. > The harddisk is not USB3 but only SATA(1 or 2 or 3) so you can connect to= a > motherboard or to another enclosure SATA compliant. > ;-) > Nicola > > > On 03/10/2011 20.04, PICdude wrote: >> Mixed results: it worked for a bit... I instantly started copying >> files but it died after some time (maybe 20 mins), and the drive was >> not recognizable anymore after that. The drive was hot at that point. >> I'm at home today so all I have is a basic weller iron, but I can't >> see anything that looks shorted. >> >> Good news is that I got my Eagle files back (lots of work there). >> Average news is that I could not get some invoices/admin stuff, but >> since I emailed those to customers, I can extract from emails and >> re-create. Bad news is that I could not get back all but one PIC code >> file which was last modified on Saturday. It's not enough for me to >> bother to go to a data-recovery service, so got some work to do again. >> :( >> >> Cheers, >> -Neil. >> >> >> >> Quoting PICdude: >> >>> Actually just tried that, but still not ohmmeter not seeing any >>> connection to 2 pins. There are 2 large chips which have no visible >>> pins, so I won't be able to move them. >>> >>> Just soldered on the wires, so my next email will be either extremely >>> happiness or extremely sad... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Quoting William Wilson: >>> >>>> I've had some luck with just reflowing the solder between the board >>>> and connector on USB drives. >>>> I've also had luck moving the memory chip over to an identical >>>> working USB drive (thumbdrive that is) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Cris Wilson >>>> Information Resource Consultant >>>> College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities >>>> Clemson University >>>> 864-656-6081 >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On >>>> Behalf Of PICdude >>>> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 12:46 PM >>>> To: piclist@mit.edu >>>> Subject: [EE] USB drive emergency >>>> >>>> My new flash drive just died and I desperately need data off of it, >>>> as it's been almost a week since my last backup with a lot of work >>>> done since then. >>>> >>>> I really suspect the connector as it's a bit bent. When plugged in, >>>> it either is not detected at all, or if I put pressure on the >>>> connector it will detect something, then come up with "One of the >>>> USB devices is not recognized...". >>>> >>>> It's a USB 3.0 drive (9-pin connector), but my computer has 4-pin >>>> USB ports. I've opened up the flash drive and the connector has >>>> "110815", which I've not yet been able to find. But it looks >>>> identical to Amphenol GSB316441CEU (datasheet... >>>> http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Amphenol%20PDFs/GSB316431CE= U.pdf >>>> ) or Wurth 692112030100 (datasheet... >>>> http://katalog.we-online.de/kataloge/eican/media/pdf/692112030100.pdf = ) >>>> >>>> I'm stripping a generic USB cable and intend to solder the 4 wires >>>> to the appropriate pads on the flash-drive PCB, but am not clear >>>> which pins on the USB side are mapped to which SMD pins on the PCB >>>> side, because the Amphenol connector does not show pin numbers, >>>> though the Wurth does. I'm testing with an ohmmeter, but so far all >>>> I see is that USB pin 1 maps to the second SMD pin, and that matches >>>> the Wurth connector datasheet. >>>> >>>> Would it be safe to assume that these connectors (including the once I >>>> have) have the same mappings? And anything I need to do with the >>>> shield wire? >>>> >>>> Before I cause more damage, thoughts appreciated. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> -Neil. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ& list archive View/change your >>>> membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >>>> >>>> -- >>>> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ& list archive >>>> View/change your membership options at >>>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ& list archive >>> View/change your membership options at >>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >>> >> >> > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .