HELP - usb memory stick stopped working

wingnuttzz · 17 Mar 2009 at 19:51

currently in the process of finishing of my school folio's (got 3 to do) which are due in next monday, and consquently all my data was stored on my memory stick so i can access my data at home and school

how-ever, it isn't working any more. when i put it in my own PC and try to open the drive through "my computer" it just asks me to format the stick.
right click > properties tells me nothing, the size of the stick etc is just showing as 0 bytes.

any way i can get any of this data back, as 1 of the folio's was finished and the others nearly finished, and i simply don't have the time to re-do them

the only other copies i have are all pre christmas and if i'm honest, the majority of the work has only been done in the last 2 weeks!!

HELP please

Grant
(wingnuttzz)

wingnuttzz · 17 Mar 2009 at 20:07

tried the school computers aswell and it didn't come asking to format but gave me an access error (but that will be cause the school computers are so tied down its unbelievable - the whole system is RM and we don't even have the permissions to run exe's etc. I've got admin rights on some pc's though xd)

will look into getdataback - the internet is a great place

wingnuttzz · 17 Mar 2009 at 21:23

yup, lesson learned

gotta love the internet, got a version of getdataback and it works

Found all the files on the memory stick and copied them to my PC.

cheers guys, life savers!!!!!!

guess i just re-format the memory stick now and dump everything back on it????

wingnuttzz · 17 Mar 2009 at 23:43

using GetDataBack i managed to recover all 6gb of data on my memory stick with-in minuites

still no idea what happened, but the important thing is i got it back, lol

many thanks again