I am so thankful for this video. I broke my flash drive and I thought I had to say goodbye to all my data. I called a few IT stores and they all quoted me over $400. Well after watching this video I decided to test my luck. The broken pieces on my flash driver were similar to the ones in this video. So I tried the option of aligning the broken pins to the connector. It took a few tries, but it lit up and I was able to hold it in place and retrieve all my data. Thanks for making this so simple. I hope someone else has the same luck I had!
Clear, concise, to the point. So many you tube poster's could learn alot from you. None of those bloody infuriating, two minute introductions, set in a "workshop" like most of the TV-show-host-wannabes, on here use.
Allow me to add my thanks for this fantastic video. Not only did you confirm what I thought was possible but without that wiring diagram I would have had no way of knowing which cable went with which pin on the circuit board. Short, sweet, and effective. Thanks so much!
I just did this exact method you demonstrated to a bent and broken flashdrive that had important music on it, worked like a charm!!! You Sir are a genius, Thank you and God Bless.
Thank you so much you saved my son a lot pain and anxiety. His university notes and work notes were not backed up and he worried he had lost everything. With deepest appreciation.
I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH! I figured as long as the pads were intact, the connection shouldn't need soldering to work. But you've confirmed these methods, and restored my faith in reality. Not to mention you considered the fact that the average being doesn't possess soldering equipment, unlike the rest of TH-cam XD. Thank you!
I swear only 10 seconds into your video you have also just saved my life. I had important work on my usb which i absentmindedly did not make a backup and did not want to do again 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ very much appreciated. Bless you guys!
You rock! Your wiring diagram and temp jumper idea with a USB cable saved us from losing a ton of crucial files my wife had only on 1 broken flash drive! I used your solder jumper method and it worked perfectly! All files are in 4 places now!
@Electronics&Computers Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! You helped me save alot of money and invaluable amounts of data. I appreciate you posting this video.
Oh my goodness!! I was going to cry and I don't know what else. I bent my flash drive in which I had stored all of my coursework for this unwanted class I had to take for the Florida Dept. of Education. I did everything I could to try to get this thing to work. Your video was the first one to come up, so I decided to watch it. I was able to open the plastic that encloses the components of the flash drive. I saw the pins you were talking about and, as you said, I don't have a small soldering iron. So I used my thumbnail (actual thumbnail). Good thing it was long and was able to hold those pins down enough so that I could get the one file I needed. I can get the others later on to move to another flash drive. It took only 2-3 minutes, but they were painful as I had to press down hard so that the pins stay down and I would not have to restart the whole process after three times of trying. Thank you so much. God bless you.
you are an absolute gem! my dog knocked my macbook pro over damaging my lifelong Verbatim store and go companion, but your method brought it back long enough for me to clone it to a new one!!
Thank you SO MUCH for this informative video. I was easily able to identify the problem and temporarily fix it long enough to retrieve the files I needed. Thank you for your simple yet effective explanation!!!
Hello Sir, Thank you so much for your video tutorial. I followed your instructions and fixed my broken USB connection and was able to retrieve all my data. I really appreciate.
Excellent video. Soldering to the microcontroller was most impressive. I would probably bridge the two points with solder if it were me with my sub-par soldering skills. lol
The 'bend' trick saved me $2,000 dollars from those repair companies who would probably do the same thing. My hand got hot holding the flash drive in place while the data transferred but lesson learned.. don't save your important stuff on a plastic, flimsy drive. Thank you!
i have a flash drive with all of the metal on the plug-in parts. all 4 pad are completely ripped off the board. where you only can see green spots where they were on the board itself. i have a soldering iron coming in a few days. i have cord i can cut and use what would be the best method to continue.
All you have to do is carefully and correctly solder wires to the PCB. If you go to any repair shop, they would do the same thing and charge you at least a hundred bucks.
@@ElectronicsComputers even possible in my case where the solder joints are completely ripped off the board? The pins are intact but the solder joint were ripped off the PCB.
From "1:49-1:53"... what if I did that with "krazy glue" to prevent a short circuit as I don't have what u'r using to prevent the short circuit? Would it still work? or else I'mm gonna have to stick in with only holding broken USB connector on the "Flash Drive".
Thank you so very much for your time and effort in making such clear and concise video. This is one of those curve balls and and I need your help, if you don’t mind. I’m helping a friend with his program security USB. His kid knocked the USB out of his PC. The USB was bent and ultimately broken. With much difficulty I managed to open and take out the board. This board is not your “typical board” with 4 lines coming out of it. It is “U” shape with 4 points behind it. The question is how would I be able to determine the appropriate pins? Can I share with you a picture of the board? I couldn’t find any diagrams on line either. Thank you in advance.
I thank you so very much for the response. I have the pictures however, I have never post a pic on the TH-cam comments. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
@@ElectronicsComputers I did more on line search and find out this USB is a “B” type with its pin layout. However, I still want to send you the pictures for confirmation, don’t want to take a chance. But and I as mentioned before, I don’t know where to send you the pictures. I would appreciate any assistance you could provide. Thanks in advance.
0:55 very frustrating. They need to change the process of cutting, "Cutting" files should not delete them until after they were successfully copied and verified before deleting to complete the cutting process.
Oh, I totally agree with you. I've lost so much information because of how the cutting feature works. Now, I always copy important files and then remove them if I don't need them.
Yes, I applied solder on the tip of the soldering iron first. I couldn't do it another way because I was holding the wires in one hand and the soldering iron in the other. The links for all the stuff that I used in the video is in the description below.
Would it possible to solder the cables to the old usb connector head contacts without first removing it from the board? So that u can avoid damaging the board during removal?
It's possible, but what's the point? If you can do that, then most likely your USB port is properly soldered to the PCB. Instead of soldering, you can simply plug it into your computer and use it normally. The whole point of attaching a USB cable to the PCB is because the USB port is completely or partially detached from the PCB's solder pads.
Thanks for the video. I have a USB 3.0, so it has 9 connectors. I saw on a comment you said you can use it with 4. If I don't have a multimeter can I just put the wires in the same order and it'll be safe?
Do you need flux to solder at 1:50min? soldering the wires to the board vs cpu. Also my USB doesn't have a metal connector, its like a flat brown spot. is it ok to solder to that or would i need to connect to the cpu? It is a retractable Cruze USB. 4 connection points.
I got a full metal one and it makes the connect sound on windows but nothing shows up... I got it open but it doesnt have a lil board in it but just a plastic covered small one. Is there any fix for those too or is it rather lost for ever?
I have a USB 3.0 with 9-pins. I 'm guessing the black ground & the red power wires go on the far left & far right pins respectively, but can the green & white wires go to any of the remaining 7 pins? Does it matter which ones I connect them to? Thanks!!
You have to wire your USB 3.0 drive in 2.0 version. So for data transfer you will use only those two pins in the needle of the connector and ignore the rest. You can see at 1:23 where white and green wires should go.
Hello I have a 3.0 SanDisk USB drive. I heard that's fine it will still work with the 4. However I know that each pin is for a specific thing on the 3.0 so witch pins would be the 4 pins of (GND) (DATA+) (DATA-) (+5V) out of the 9 pins on the SanDisk 3.0?
@@ElectronicsComputers Ok thanks that was extremely helpful, so I only need to use the data - and data + for data transfer? On a 3.0 and it would still be the same on a 3.0 where data - is green and data + is white thats where I get a lil confused
@@xxSOULREAPER25xx Forget about USB 3.0 connectors. You have 4 wires, two provide 5 volts and two data transfer. For USB 3.0 you need two receive and two transmit wires and also two wires for power.
Think that is what mine has done. The USB is connecting but is not showing drive name or the used/free space. How do you remove the part you insert into the PC from the actual USB drive part?
@@ElectronicsComputers Hi, me again. Do you know of a place I can find a schamatic or similar of a 3.0 usb to figure out which 4 contacts to use? Thanks
Hello Sir, thank you so much for your video!!! I have a few questions, because i did not understand some answers from you. I have a Hama USB Stick with 9 wires. Did i understand it right that i can also use only 4 wires? So the far left and right ones are black and red but where does the other go, the white and green one. I did see multiple times your video but i still do not get it. Or could you please let me know how to connect 9 wires? Thank you so much. Kind regards!
I tried to connect the wires to the board then connecting it to my pc to see if it works, the pc recognized the sound board(usb) but the next day when I tried again my pc didn't recognized the sound board anymore, I just kept hearing the connecting usb sound. How do i fix it ? I want to make sure the sound board is recognized by pc before soldering.
This method works! But unfortunately when I connect the wires to the broken USB head my computer makes the connection noise but it automatically states that there is a problem with the device and that it wasn't able to install it successfully. Do you know any fix for my laptop to allow me to access the files? I see it is connecting but it's not appear local disk just getting error messages..
Yes Only for about 7 or 8 seconds then goes off then goes on ,then off ,then on , repeatedly ,its so quick not much chance to trouble shoot .@@ElectronicsComputers
So I dropped my flash drive on accident and there seems to be no damage on it and when I connect the usb the light on it quickly flashes once and it stays off after that does that mean the flash drive doesn’t have power going to it when its connected?
It says “Unknown USB Device needs more power than the port can supply” what do I do? Do you think it might be the usb cord I used to solder the wire and the usb with?
My instructions are universal for any flash drive. Of course, I can't cover the disassembly and show pinouts for all flash drives, so you have to figure out the last step yourself.
i tried the first method. when i hold the connector to the board and plug it into the computer the light turns on. strong and steady but the computer is not showing a usb connected. what could be the issue?
@@ElectronicsComputers actually, nevermind! I used the first method with a different usb connector, the original one broke, and it worked like a charm!! Thank you so much for this info vid, you saved my life!!!
Any USB data cable will do the job. Whether it's going to be "for nothing" or not, you can find out by giving it a try. There are a bunch of variables, and it all depends on your technical skills. I provided simple instructions that would work in most cases for the most basic USB drives; the rest is up to you.
Hello, I live in Ethiopia and my flash drive with many files is broken, experts in this country told me that the file cannot be downloaded. I tried another way. I watched your video. Please help me with a solution. I really need the file inside.
@ElectronicsComputers Thank you very much for your kind reply. It was broken when it was plugged into the laptop. The end of the flash plug is broken. Maybe if you send me your Telegram link, I can take a picture and send you a picture so you can see the broken part
@@THOTUBE Do you have a soldering iron and a multimiter? Solving that kind of a problem just looking at pictures is not that easy. Attach close up pictures here, so it will be helpful for others as well.
Please tell me what does it mean if the first time when I touched the wires to the pcb my windows recognized the device but the next day when I tried again it didn't recognized the device.
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please help me my keyboard usb thing doesn’t connect and to my pc and i checked the inside and it’s bent 😢 please tell me how to fix if u can thx 🙏
Can I send you mine to fix?
I owe my college degree to you. You saved my semester thank you so much.
I'm glad I could help you!
This video just saved me from having a complete meltdown. Thank you!🙏🏾
I'm glad I could help you!
I am so thankful for this video. I broke my flash drive and I thought I had to say goodbye to all my data. I called a few IT stores and they all quoted me over $400. Well after watching this video I decided to test my luck. The broken pieces on my flash driver were similar to the ones in this video. So I tried the option of aligning the broken pins to the connector. It took a few tries, but it lit up and I was able to hold it in place and retrieve all my data. Thanks for making this so simple. I hope someone else has the same luck I had!
I'm so glad I could help you!
Clear, concise, to the point. So many you tube poster's could learn alot from you. None of those bloody infuriating, two minute introductions, set in a "workshop" like most of the TV-show-host-wannabes, on here use.
Thank you for the comment!
Allow me to add my thanks for this fantastic video. Not only did you confirm what I thought was possible but without that wiring diagram I would have had no way of knowing which cable went with which pin on the circuit board. Short, sweet, and effective. Thanks so much!
Glad it helped
I just did this exact method you demonstrated to a bent and broken flashdrive that had important music on it, worked like a charm!!! You Sir are a genius, Thank you and God Bless.
Glad it helped!
This guy has saved more people than he will ever know. Thank you so much I used the first method and transferred files in a very awkward position 😂😂
Thank you for letting me know, I'm glad I could help you in that way.
Thank you so much you saved my son a lot pain and anxiety. His university notes and work notes were not backed up and he worried he had lost everything. With deepest appreciation.
I'm so glad I could help you, guys.
I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH! I figured as long as the pads were intact, the connection shouldn't need soldering to work. But you've confirmed these methods, and restored my faith in reality. Not to mention you considered the fact that the average being doesn't possess soldering equipment, unlike the rest of TH-cam XD. Thank you!
Glad I could help!
Thank you! You helped me recover years of work, and saved me over $100. Great video!
I'm glad I could help you.
I swear only 10 seconds into your video you have also just saved my life. I had important work on my usb which i absentmindedly did not make a backup and did not want to do again 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ very much appreciated. Bless you guys!
I'm glad I could help you!
Ditto what others said. Your instructions worked perfectly, and I was able to save all my data. A million thanks!!!
Glad it helped!
You rock! Your wiring diagram and temp jumper idea with a USB cable saved us from losing a ton of crucial files my wife had only on 1 broken flash drive! I used your solder jumper method and it worked perfectly! All files are in 4 places now!
Excellent job! I'm happy to help!
@Electronics&Computers Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! You helped me save alot of money and invaluable amounts of data. I appreciate you posting this video.
I'm happy to help and thank you for your support!
Oh my goodness!! I was going to cry and I don't know what else. I bent my flash drive in which I had stored all of my coursework for this unwanted class I had to take for the Florida Dept. of Education. I did everything I could to try to get this thing to work. Your video was the first one to come up, so I decided to watch it. I was able to open the plastic that encloses the components of the flash drive. I saw the pins you were talking about and, as you said, I don't have a small soldering iron. So I used my thumbnail (actual thumbnail). Good thing it was long and was able to hold those pins down enough so that I could get the one file I needed. I can get the others later on to move to another flash drive. It took only 2-3 minutes, but they were painful as I had to press down hard so that the pins stay down and I would not have to restart the whole process after three times of trying. Thank you so much. God bless you.
Thank you for such an honest comment. I'm happy to help!
you are an absolute gem! my dog knocked my macbook pro over damaging my lifelong Verbatim store and go companion, but your method brought it back long enough for me to clone it to a new one!!
I'm glad I could help you!
The soldering method works for me. I am so proud of myself now! Thank you!
Good job! I'm happy to help!
omg all my coursework for school was one that usb stick and your video helped me save myslef from failing, thankyou so much :D
I'm so glad I could help you!
Words cannot express how awesome this trick is using old cable. So many thanks.
You are most welcome
I have a study drive and it broken and with your help you saved me
I'm glad I could help you!
Bro that’s a 4TB Of data almost lost but you are a GOD at these Things
I used the wire method without soldering and it work like a charm 👍thumbs up
Nice work! happy to help!
Thank you so much man, I’m about to try this out. My USB bent because my laptop fell off my bed and it bent my drive.
Glad I could help!
Thank you SO MUCH for this informative video. I was easily able to identify the problem and temporarily fix it long enough to retrieve the files I needed. Thank you for your simple yet effective explanation!!!
Thank you for letting me know, I'm glad I could help you in that way.
Cheers! Soldering was too difficult, so I ended up hot-gluing the wires to the contacts. Worked though!
Happy to help!
How did you hot glue it????
@@marianavasquez854 I used a hot glue gun...?
Hello Sir,
Thank you so much for your video tutorial. I followed your instructions and fixed my broken USB connection and was able to retrieve all my data. I really appreciate.
Great job on fixing your USB drive. I'm happy to help.
Sir, this video is a god-send and literally just saved me $1,000+ dollars! Thank you soo much for this short and very straight to the point video!
I'm so glad I could help you! Please like and subscribe.
Excellent video. Soldering to the microcontroller was most impressive. I would probably bridge the two points with solder if it were me with my sub-par soldering skills. lol
thank you for the comment!
The 'bend' trick saved me $2,000 dollars from those repair companies who would probably do the same thing. My hand got hot holding the flash drive in place while the data transferred but lesson learned.. don't save your important stuff on a plastic, flimsy drive. Thank you!
Great job! I'm happy to help!
Amazing video.
And you also replies to almost everyone. Amazing work dude. Keep it up. Most people doesn't even reply to those who need help.
I'm happy to help and thank you for the comment!
You are a life saver. Thank you for sharing!!!
I'm glad I could help you!
@@ElectronicsComputers hello?
This is the most helpful video 've seen because I owe you 128 gb
I'm glad I could help you!
Thank you!! You saved my precious Mark Minervini stock trading files 😂
Glad to help!
You just saved my life, thanks!
I'm glad I could help you!
@@ElectronicsComputers hello?
Great video! but can you please raise the volume?
Thank you for the comment! I'll work on the audio quality!
@@ElectronicsComputers hello?
1:53 "if some of these pads have been ripped off the board" - what if all four of them are now missing?
You need to figure out where those traces lead and solder wires to the other pads.
i have a flash drive with all of the metal on the plug-in parts. all 4 pad are completely ripped off the board. where you only can see green spots where they were on the board itself. i have a soldering iron coming in a few days. i have cord i can cut and use what would be the best method to continue.
All you have to do is carefully and correctly solder wires to the PCB. If you go to any repair shop, they would do the same thing and charge you at least a hundred bucks.
@@ElectronicsComputers even possible in my case where the solder joints are completely ripped off the board? The pins are intact but the solder joint were ripped off the PCB.
Thank you thank you thank you! & the copy tip instead of cut was much appreciated! Thank you !
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much. I saved all my files and saved hours of work redoing them...
Glad I could help!
I had a pendrive circuit with some documents now i can connect it easily
From "1:49-1:53"... what if I did that with "krazy glue" to prevent a short circuit as I don't have what u'r using to prevent the short circuit? Would it still work? or else I'mm gonna have to stick in with only holding broken USB connector on the "Flash Drive".
Thank you so much I had so many important documents on there🙏
You are so welcome
Helped me some much! Absolute hero.
I'm glad I could help. Like and subscribe if it helped you a lot.
Hey I'm just wondering is there a risk of being shocked when I plug in the usb at 0:41?
@Electronics&Computers
With what? 5 volts????? It's impossible!!!
Thanks sir, files now rescued for my neece. Super video
I'm happy to help!
Thanks for the detailed instructions!
Glad it was helpful!
Good video, very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so very much for your time and effort in making such clear and concise video. This is one of those curve balls and and I need your help, if you don’t mind. I’m helping a friend with his program security USB. His kid knocked the USB out of his PC. The USB was bent and ultimately broken. With much difficulty I managed to open and take out the board. This board is not your “typical board” with 4 lines coming out of it. It is “U” shape with 4 points behind it. The question is how would I be able to determine the appropriate pins? Can I share with you a picture of the board? I couldn’t find any diagrams on line either. Thank you in advance.
Send me close-up photos of the board from both sides.
I thank you so very much for the response. I have the pictures however, I have never post a pic on the TH-cam comments. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
@@ElectronicsComputers I did more on line search and find out this USB is a “B” type with its pin layout. However, I still want to send you the pictures for confirmation, don’t want to take a chance. But and I as mentioned before, I don’t know where to send you the pictures. I would appreciate any assistance you could provide. Thanks in advance.
LITERAL LIFE SAVER
0:55 very frustrating. They need to change the process of cutting, "Cutting" files should not delete them until after they were successfully copied and verified before deleting to complete the cutting process.
Oh, I totally agree with you. I've lost so much information because of how the cutting feature works. Now, I always copy important files and then remove them if I don't need them.
OMG I can't believe I made it work
Is your solder already in the solder iron because I didn’t see you put solder when you heated up the circuit and what solder iron are you using?
Yes, I applied solder on the tip of the soldering iron first. I couldn't do it another way because I was holding the wires in one hand and the soldering iron in the other. The links for all the stuff that I used in the video is in the description below.
Full support 😊😊
Thank you for the comment!
Any idea as to how can I remove that small led and use it with a toy?
You need a soldering iron or simply buy a new one. For 1$ you can buy 100pcs with free shipment: ali.pub/5jvs7g
@@ElectronicsComputers ohk thanks!😄
Would it possible to solder the cables to the old usb connector head contacts without first removing it from the board? So that u can avoid damaging the board during removal?
It's possible, but what's the point? If you can do that, then most likely your USB port is properly soldered to the PCB. Instead of soldering, you can simply plug it into your computer and use it normally. The whole point of attaching a USB cable to the PCB is because the USB port is completely or partially detached from the PCB's solder pads.
Can you hold the thin wires in place with electrical tape?
It's not gonna make any proper or reliable contacts.
i love your channel bro :) thank you
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks for the video.
I have a USB 3.0, so it has 9 connectors. I saw on a comment you said you can use it with 4. If I don't have a multimeter can I just put the wires in the same order and it'll be safe?
Hey, my broken USB drive uses USB C, is there something I can do to recover its data?
Do you need flux to solder at 1:50min? soldering the wires to the board vs cpu. Also my USB doesn't have a metal connector, its like a flat brown spot. is it ok to solder to that or would i need to connect to the cpu? It is a retractable Cruze USB. 4 connection points.
You always need to apply flux on exposed copper wires or PCB traces. Can you show me a close-up high resolution image of your drives PCB?
I got a full metal one and it makes the connect sound on windows but nothing shows up... I got it open but it doesnt have a lil board in it but just a plastic covered small one. Is there any fix for those too or is it rather lost for ever?
It's almost impossible to deal with the latest USB drives without the microscope and hot air station.
@@ElectronicsComputers aw man okay. Well that’s unfortunate then. Thank you for the quick response tho
what if solder on ground pads are missing the black and red one where do i connect them ?
you have to find the other solder pads which were connected to the ripped off ones. Without a multimeter it's almost impossible task.
What if only the black one is missing in usb cable?
@@luthandovilakazi870 What wire colors do you have in that cable?
would this work with a usb receiver? like hyperx cloud stinger?
Sure! Same process.
I have a USB 3.0 with 9-pins. I 'm guessing the black ground & the red power wires go on the far left & far right pins respectively, but can the green & white wires go to any of the remaining 7 pins? Does it matter which ones I connect them to? Thanks!!
You have to wire your USB 3.0 drive in 2.0 version. So for data transfer you will use only those two pins in the needle of the connector and ignore the rest. You can see at 1:23 where white and green wires should go.
Hello I have a 3.0 SanDisk USB drive. I heard that's fine it will still work with the 4. However I know that each pin is for a specific thing on the 3.0 so witch pins would be the 4 pins of (GND) (DATA+) (DATA-) (+5V) out of the 9 pins on the SanDisk 3.0?
Red contacts for USB 3.0 and White ones for USB 2.0: ibb.co/281PNhH
Simply use white ones to power your flash drive and transfer data.
@@ElectronicsComputers Ok thanks that was extremely helpful, so I only need to use the data - and data + for data transfer? On a 3.0 and it would still be the same on a 3.0 where data - is green and data + is white thats where I get a lil confused
@@xxSOULREAPER25xx Forget about USB 3.0 connectors. You have 4 wires, two provide 5 volts and two data transfer. For USB 3.0 you need two receive and two transmit wires and also two wires for power.
Think that is what mine has done. The USB is connecting but is not showing drive name or the used/free space. How do you remove the part you insert into the PC from the actual USB drive part?
With a soldering iron.
@@ElectronicsComputers could it be fixed without soldering?
Hi, I have 9 pins coming from the USB onto the board. Are only 4 of these being used? Or what? Thanks for any advice!
you have USB 3.0 drive but you can use only 4 contacts and it will work as a USB 2.0 drive.
@@ElectronicsComputers Thanks!
@@ElectronicsComputers Hi, me again. Do you know of a place I can find a schamatic or similar of a 3.0 usb to figure out which 4 contacts to use? Thanks
Hello Sir, thank you so much for your video!!! I have a few questions, because i did not understand some answers from you. I have a Hama USB Stick with 9 wires. Did i understand it right that i can also use only 4 wires? So the far left and right ones are black and red but where does the other go, the white and green one. I did see multiple times your video but i still do not get it. Or could you please let me know how to connect 9 wires? Thank you so much. Kind regards!
I hope this will help: ibb.co/GV8snz6
There's no need to solder all 9 wires. For USB 2.0 connection you'll need only 4 wires.
I understand but where do i connerct the 4 wires to the 9 contacts on my stick?
what you stick with??? I can stick witch superglue or something?
you have to solder it!!!
Sir, which four connectors would I need to use in the case of having a USB 3.0 drive?
There will be 5 contacts for USB 3.0 and 4 contacts for USB 2.0 connection. I recommend using USB 2.0 interface because it has less wires.
I have cut open a usb cord but it only had black and red wires inside, can I still use this method without the green and white wire?
No! If your cable has only two wires then it's not a USB data cable it's just a charging one.
No worries I have to send mine away it is a NAND chip or something
Thank you for your help and the video anyway :)
what if one of the 4 pins is broken off, have any idea if it will still work?
You have to find with a multimiter where that pin goes and solder a wire to that pad or component.
If I bend a usb, is it more likely I break the port itself or the USB itself?
I tried to connect the wires to the board then connecting it to my pc to see if it works, the pc recognized the sound board(usb) but the next day when I tried again my pc didn't recognized the sound board anymore, I just kept hearing the connecting usb sound. How do i fix it ? I want to make sure the sound board is recognized by pc before soldering.
Mu usb has not been completely separated, what can i do in this situation.
Just solder that port down or try to make a contact by pressing the USB connector to the board and then backup your information.
I'm missing 3 pins but the ground pin is still there. What would i do then?
Thanks!
Welcome!
Question, I have a usb with 9 connectors, is it just to put togheter?
That's a USB 3.0 connector. You can only connect 4 terminals and it will work as a regular USB 2.0 flash drive.
@@ElectronicsComputers hello?
This method works! But unfortunately when I connect the wires to the broken USB head my computer makes the connection noise but it automatically states that there is a problem with the device and that it wasn't able to install it successfully. Do you know any fix for my laptop to allow me to access the files? I see it is connecting but it's not appear local disk just getting error messages..
If you're connecting a USB cable to the PCB board then try to reverse two middle data wires.
I wish I could just find a place to recover my data from my flash drive and not charge me like $300. I’m in Orange County CA. Any recommendations?
Sir mere pass wire orange.white.grenn.blue.color heto sir kesa kare.
Orange will be positive 5volts and blue is ground or negative. The rest is your data wires.
My usb ThumbDrive blinks on and off every 7or 8 seconds do you think it could be a bad connection ? I may try this .
Does your computer recognize the drive when it's on?
Yes Only for about 7 or 8 seconds then goes off then goes on ,then off ,then on , repeatedly ,its so quick not much chance to trouble shoot .@@ElectronicsComputers
So I dropped my flash drive on accident and there seems to be no damage on it and when I connect the usb the light on it quickly flashes once and it stays off after that does that mean the flash drive doesn’t have power going to it when its connected?
It says “Unknown USB Device needs more power than the port can supply” what do I do? Do you think it might be the usb cord I used to solder the wire and the usb with?
Double check your wiring and make sure that there's no short circuit.
@@ElectronicsComputers is it possible to fix a short circuit and how do I check to see if there is a short circuit
So I have a usb 3.0 and it looks like it has 9 total connectors on it. How do I do this with that?
You can use just 4 connectors and it will work using USB 2.0 interface.
Hey, the front part of my usb fell out, and the drive is still in there. How do you recover the files?
when I connect the cable to the pc it begins to heat up and it burns what is it\
You definitely have a short! Check the polarity, wires, contacts etc.
@@ElectronicsComputers hello?
Hello @Kenneth
@@Tony-js2os r u "@2013Electronics& Computers"?
Yes
Will this work on a kingston hyperx flash drive 64gb?
My instructions are universal for any flash drive. Of course, I can't cover the disassembly and show pinouts for all flash drives, so you have to figure out the last step yourself.
i tried the first method. when i hold the connector to the board and plug it into the computer the light turns on. strong and steady but the computer is not showing a usb connected. what could be the issue?
Make sure that the data wires (green and white) have a good connection with the traces/solder pads on your flash drive board.
You said any usb cable would do.. but my usb cables only have 2 lines when cut( blue and red) :/ what or where can buy to find a 4 cable usb cable..
I never seen anything like that! Maybe it's just a cheap cable for charging some device without data transfer wires.
@@ElectronicsComputers actually, nevermind! I used the first method with a different usb connector, the original one broke, and it worked like a charm!! Thank you so much for this info vid, you saved my life!!!
@@TherpThad I'm glad I could help you!
Very very thank you so much bro 😅😅
Welcome 😊
Can indonit with a old mouse USB plug in? Does it have same wiring inside?I don't want to cut it out and then realize it was for nothing. Please help
Any USB data cable will do the job. Whether it's going to be "for nothing" or not, you can find out by giving it a try. There are a bunch of variables, and it all depends on your technical skills. I provided simple instructions that would work in most cases for the most basic USB drives; the rest is up to you.
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Thank you!Will try:)
Hello, I live in Ethiopia and my flash drive with many files is broken, experts in this country told me that the file cannot be downloaded. I tried another way. I watched your video. Please help me with a solution. I really need the file inside.
Can you be more specific about your problem with the drive? Is it mechanically broken, or does your PC simply not detect the drive or fail to open it?
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Thank you very much for your kind reply. It was broken when it was plugged into the laptop. The end of the flash plug is broken. Maybe if you send me your Telegram link, I can take a picture and send you a picture so you can see the broken part
@@THOTUBE Do you have a soldering iron and a multimiter? Solving that kind of a problem just looking at pictures is not that easy. Attach close up pictures here, so it will be helpful for others as well.
I have a Kingston 64 GB one that my sister just broke and I have no idea how to open it.
Please tell me what does it mean if the first time when I touched the wires to the pcb my windows recognized the device but the next day when I tried again it didn't recognized the device.
Bad contact with the PCB
If i say that i have a SanDisk USB and it's not broken,but it heats up,can it be fixed?
Getting hot is not a problem, there's nothing you can do about it.
Almost all my uni work is on mine I hope this works
Did it work for you?
@@ElectronicsComputers sadly nope the IT guy at my uni said it was gone :(
@@Emilia-fp3pn Send it to me, I'll do it
its working thanks bro
Welcome
Please show the pin out path like CLK CMD DAT0 greetings from Indonesia

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my usb stick not working🥺 how to fix it? I need bring to repear shop? how? plz help me
If my method didn't work for you, then go ahead and ask some technician at any repair shop to fix it.