Hi
A friend of mines USB flash drive stopped working recently and it contains extremely important data which forms part of her PHD thesis. The drive shows up when connected but the capacity displays as 0kB. I have confirmed that it is a hardware fault but have not yet isolated the exact component, but based on info I have found on the net, it appears to be the flash drive controller IC which has failed.
My question then is, assuming the controller has failed and the flash is fine, would it be possible to recover the data perhaps by interfacing the flash memory with a mircrocontroller and reading the data off it bit by bit and storing it to a pc? If so, how would you recommend I approach this?
I am an RF and Microwave engineer, so I have experience with digital systems but very limited. I would appreciate any advise on recovering the data as it is very important to her.
A friend of mines USB flash drive stopped working recently and it contains extremely important data which forms part of her PHD thesis. The drive shows up when connected but the capacity displays as 0kB. I have confirmed that it is a hardware fault but have not yet isolated the exact component, but based on info I have found on the net, it appears to be the flash drive controller IC which has failed.
My question then is, assuming the controller has failed and the flash is fine, would it be possible to recover the data perhaps by interfacing the flash memory with a mircrocontroller and reading the data off it bit by bit and storing it to a pc? If so, how would you recommend I approach this?
I am an RF and Microwave engineer, so I have experience with digital systems but very limited. I would appreciate any advise on recovering the data as it is very important to her.