![]() Word and its auto-save features are not to be trusted to not write to a file when you least expect it. ![]() The reason for this is that if your repair fails during a write, you will lose the file completely, never to be readable again. Copy the file to a computer and open that copy. With Microsoft Word that means do not open the file from the drive. Whatever you do though, do not try to write to the USB drive. I have done this on older hardware, but never on USB drives. You may find it easiest to bridge the gap with wire rather than attempting to put it back into its original shape.Īlternatively, if you do not have a soldering iron, you might be able to strap it up with tape to make contact. That looks fixable with a fine point iron and multi-core solder. SuperUser contributors Chris H, tehwalris, and Annonomus Penguin have the answer for us. ![]() ![]() Is it possible to repair this broken USB drive? The Answer Is there any that way that I can fix this? My thinking is to solder it together, but I want to hear if anybody here has experience with this kind of thing or any tips that will help?Īnother option would be seeing if Microsoft Word had saved a copy of the file as a temporary file, but in the places my friend has checked so far, there was nothing to be found. My friend just wrote to me, all panicked, that he had broken his USB drive with his math homework for tomorrow on it. SuperUser reader Rasmus Mathiesen wants to know if it is possible to repair a friend’s physically broken USB drive:
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