HELP Knackered Pen Drive

[Muel]

My pen drive just burnt out or summat like that, I've lost everything, my last backup was 2 weeks old.

I plug it in, it recognises there is a drive, then when I click to open it, it tells me that I should insert a disc into the drive. The light doesn't come on, when I select propeties it tells me the storage capacity is 0 bytes.

Sounds like something hardwareified has died. Anyone got any ideas?

It's a Corsair Voyager 8gb, roughly a year old, got it for Christmas last year.

 

[Muel]

Already tried it in another computer, same issues. It tries to install a USB device with a random name where it used to say Flash Voyager.

It's not even had a lot of hammer, I've never dropped it, I hadn't bent it or wacked it while it was in. It was on the desk in my netbook and I was working away, and it died as I was working with it.

I havn't got time to send it off, I've got uni work in for next week so I either need to get it back somehow myself or redo it.

Is there any way to remove the flash memory part say and insert it into another pen drive? Maybe it's a little chip that clips in or something, who knows.

 

[Muel]

It does get a letter, but File Scavanger came up straight away saying device not recognised.

I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue. So I'm going to heat it up with a blow torch to melt and reset the solder, or freeze it because I've heard that can work with hard drives...