Recover My Flash Drive

11/30/2023

Corrupt FTL, off chip recovery, 100% recovered

11/30/2023

Broken connector repair, 100% data recovered

07/08/2021

Quick project, 4GB monolithic chip. FAB4GBHSTD2SM1S. Used a SanDisk MicroSD 3x7 grid with Bad Bytes. Had to read the chip with SanDisk Retry Codes to get a usable image. Root directory was damaged but repairable. After that all data was recovered. :-)

06/03/2018

Ever wondered what goes into solving a monolithic data recovery case? Here is a brief explanation of what we do to recover data from monolithic flash drives.

This is "Monolithic Flash Drive Recovery - A Brief How To" by Recover My Flash Drive on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

05/31/2018

We recently received a USB flash drive with missing legs on the controller microchip. Rather than source an identical chip or go the off-chip route we decided to fix it by removing a small portion of the ceramic substrate and micro soldering the contacts back to the printed circuit board using very thin magnet wire thereby successfully recovering all the data. This was an ideal situation because if we went off-chip there was a small risk that we may not get all the data.

05/28/2018

Wow, I need to blow some dust off our page. Heres an article I recently updated on How Flash Drives Fail... Enjoy.

How Flash Drives Fail May 24, 2018 jeremy Flash Drive Recovery Blog Updated for 2018: Flash media is very robust but it can fail. Flash drives are like mini computers, they have a controller which has a CPU, RAM, EEPROM, and GPIO embedded in it. When the flash drive is inserted the controller loads....

10/02/2016

Another reason not to use promotional flash drives, hacked firmware. Watch as I show how the firmware can easily be modified.

We can recover you data! recovermyflashdrive.com A brief look at how promotional flash drive firmware is hacked!!

11/05/2015

Fixing broken pins on an alcor micro controller with very thin wire and some crazy soldering skills..