[gui-talk] my thumb drive just died

[Ted Shelly]

The sad news is that it sounds like your drive is  indeed dead and there is
probably no way for you to recover the data.  I've had a couple of such
drives die on me, but nothing quite so spectacularly as yours.  This is why
it is so important to have backups of your critical data.

I'll put in a plug here for my favorite backup strategy - a program called
Jungle Disk which can be used to backup important files on the Internet.
See www.jungledisk.com .  The program is only $10 and storage costs for me
have been less than $1 per month.  And it is very secure, using Amazon's
cloud computing platform for the online storage.

Ted Shelly

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Humberto
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:15 PM
To: GUI-talk at nfbNet.org
Subject: [gui-talk] my thumb drive just died

Hello.
my flash drive (USB thumb-drive) just died today, and I can't 
understand why that happened. I was using it just fine. I was 
working on stuff for my homework that was on that thumb drive, 
then I went to eat dinner. After dinner it didn't work. It looks 
like the material that has the data in it has burnt up or 
exploded, because it feels very hot when I touch it, and the 
built-in light doesn't come up at all. When I insert it into my 
computer, the connecting sound doesn't play either. What do I do? 
This is important because it is where I put all my school-related 
stuff. Any comments are appreciated.

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