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Recovery:

Of course we all hope that it wouldn't be necessary to find a way to recover a 'broken" USB-Stick, but this appears to be a big problem for many users around the world and this happened also to us. After approximately two weeks of daily use the stick has been detected as write protected from one moment to the other and we weren't able to write data on it or format it. We can't tell for sure what caused this problem but we assume that the problem was caused when Sandra stopped its work and we had to quit the program by the use of the three magic Windows keys. However, the fact is that the problem appeared and that we had to find a way to recover our USB-Stick.

During our searches on the internet we found some possible ways to solve this problem and we have posted some of these possible solutions in this thread in our Flash memory forum. There isn't a unique method to solve such problems and it isn't guaranteed that a method which worked for one person works for another to, even for people with the same stick and a similar problem.

Here we will show you the solution which worked for us (again, it isn't a must that it works for you too). The tool which worked for us is called Recovery_1002 and can be found on the Trancendusa website. It's a very simple and easy to use tool. Here a short explanation on how to use it.

After the stick has been connected and the tool has been opened the following screen appears.

We can find some information about the device, such as name, drive letter and size. Here it is noted that the device was detected as Ut161 USB2FlashStorage USB Device before and when the problems appeared first the device was detected as USBest USB2FlashStorage device from one moment to the other. Anyway, for us this doesn't matter since the Ut161 controller is produced by USBest. Besides this information we can decide if we like to perform a fast repair or a complete repair.

After a click onto the repair button, the process starts.

Once finished, you just have to disconnect the device and after connecting the device again you will find that all the previously saved data on the stick been lost but all should work again. You may have to reformat the stick if you would like to use a different file system.

Now let's move to the conclusion…..