Password cracker for sandisk usb key5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Swapping the actual flash IC into an identical drive. If you want to try something yourself, open it up and clean it It's probably already ruined, and as you have important documents on there you should probably be looking at an expensive recovery service. This may already have destroyed the controller chip. Your comment that Windows knows something has been plugged in but not what it is would tend to reinforce that idea. I suspect that rather than a broken connection there's a short circuit - either damage or debris inside. Heat means at least the power lines are making contact. That's 290mW which would be faintly warm at most in something that size. ![]() A different drive I have here draws 58mA (I have a USB lead with an ammeter wired into it). The current draw should be less than 100mA so less than 0.5W. However small a drive is, it shouldn't get hot - the control chip is the same and there's no heatsink. I never managed to read/write it again, but I never tried very hard. That was also a SanDisk (Ultra Dual I think, anyway with both micro USB and USB-A). ![]() I had one that got very hot too (while writing a linux ISO onto it). ![]()
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