I have this old USB drive that folds flat and fits in my wallet and I've carried it around for years. I tried to use it a couple days ago with a printer and the only thing I could get from it was that it couldn't read the device. I assumed that despite going to an engineering school, they either set up the printer wrong or just configured it so that it wouldn't read USB drives. But I finally got around to checking it on my computer and, well, it's messed up.
It shows up as a drive, but is all grayed out and basically acts like an empty CD drive. Properties shows that it's working correctly, but that it has 0 bytes of storage. Attempting to format it just says "Please insert a drive". I tried reading it from Ubuntu in WSL, but it refuses to mount, probably because it still goes through the Windows API?
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here might have any ideas on how to recover any data on it, or in general restore it to some semblance of functionality.
I do have access to a real Linux install, I would just have to close waaaaayyy too many things on my laptop to get to it, so I haven't tried anything with that yet.
It shows up as a drive, but is all grayed out and basically acts like an empty CD drive. Properties shows that it's working correctly, but that it has 0 bytes of storage. Attempting to format it just says "Please insert a drive". I tried reading it from Ubuntu in WSL, but it refuses to mount, probably because it still goes through the Windows API?
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here might have any ideas on how to recover any data on it, or in general restore it to some semblance of functionality.
I do have access to a real Linux install, I would just have to close waaaaayyy too many things on my laptop to get to it, so I haven't tried anything with that yet.