USB Flashing Red, Refuses to communicate and recognise through PC.

Anonymousfox

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Hey, so a few months ago I found a USB Drive, it was found on the field by another friend and I was given it to research, I know it was more than potentious that the drive would be broken, although I take things apart a lot and know a lot about computer's I have no idea how to fix this, not the USB, itself, it appears fine from the outside, however I don't understand the red flashing light, even if the flashing light means its dead atleast I know I don't need to waste anymore time with this.

I have a video to demonstrate to you the issue with this drive, oddly enough the red flashing will only occur when it's 3/4 of the way in, which could mean a damaged connector? I have no clue, all I know is that when you put it in fully there is no PC output, and no indication weather's it works or not, so I just wanted to ask you guys, thus, I am sorry for the TV in the background, i'm not redoing the video again just because of that, so just mute it if you're not interested as I do not say anything anyway, you'll probabaly just here me breathe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5kK73_VJU&feature=youtu.be

Nevermind about the background, just put some crappy music around the back, make sure to mute your sound.
 


Copy that, any chance of it working at all though?

 



That done it for me, just turned out to be a load of schoolwork, i'll safely disgard that then I guess, I thank you so much however, I can now use that technique on any other broken drive, apprechiate it bro.
 



anytime, this doesnt work all the time, but easy enough to try :)