Hi, I already know the answer but we never know if anyone out there can make miracles :) I've been given a dead USB drive, in my linux laptop is identified as usb storage device but it fails to read (probably) the capacity and the usb stack keeps on resetting the device. It's not possible to open it, looks like a small solid plastick stick with metal tabs embedded on one side. It's just a bit longer than the typical usb slot. I tried heating and freezing it, just in case it was some temperature sensitive fault, but behaviour never changed. I don't think there's a way to expose the actual NAND-flash chip and read it separately, but I'm asking the expert here :) Did anyone ever found a way to open (or otherwise read) these little data killer devices? Thanks
Frank