Is this a flash drive or a spinny disk? if it is a spinny disk you can extract the disk and attach it via SATA or PATA which will give you access to lower level. Of course if the drive is not spinning up then you are pretty much hosed. OnTrack does an awesome job of recovering data from dead drives, they also cost an awesome amount. Conversations with customers invariable come to something like this: C: This is the most important data, it must be recovered at all costs. Me: Ok, OnTrack says it will cost $10,000. Shall I tell them to proceed? C: oh, it is not THAT important. If, however, the drive spins up or spins up and then dies at some point while accessing the data then gddrescue is the tool you want. It will let you dd data off of the drives in chunks mapping out which parts of the disk are unreachable. Of course, if this is a flash disk then all bets are off and chances are the data is toast. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > Nothing recommended has worked. What are some recommendations for companies > that may be able to recover the data on the usb drive? > > > > > On 01/26/2015 08:58 AM, Raymond Norton wrote: >> >> Trying to help a friend out with a usb drive that shows up under lsusb, >> but does not show up as a storage device. (was working) >> >> lsusb: Bus 001 Device 005: ID 090c:3000 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan >> (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.) >> >> >> Chip info: Hynix H27UBGBT2BIR BC 113AA >> >> In very small print, possibly M1VKR016JJ (don't have magnify glass) >> >> What linux tools or methods might be available to try and get the device >> to show up as a storage device? >> > > -- > Raymond Norton > LCTN > 952.955.7766 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list