A friend needs my help figuring out what's wrong with several of his USB (2.0) thumb drives. Three of his 5 drives simply went dead.
When I plug them in (both his PC and mine), Windows makes the "connect" sound, but the drives never mount (so I can't scan or even reformat them.) Windows "Disk Management" does not detect them either. I've tried multiple ports (both USB2 & 3.0) and it makes no difference.
Are the drives trashed?
PS: Linux does not detect them at all.
When I plug them in (both his PC and mine), Windows makes the "connect" sound, but the drives never mount (so I can't scan or even reformat them.) Windows "Disk Management" does not detect them either. I've tried multiple ports (both USB2 & 3.0) and it makes no difference.
Are the drives trashed?
PS: Linux does not detect them at all.