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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: cyp86 on June 21, 2018, 02:29:14 AM

Title: Repair usb drive
Post by: cyp86 on June 21, 2018, 02:29:14 AM

Hello,

I'm actually trying to repair an usb flash drive, I tried to format it but I can't (no partition table), I tried to flash the IC but it doesn't answer, I don't know how to make it work or even if I can  ??? . It's a PNY 64GB 3.0, IC is a SMI SM3267AC, VID 090C, PID 1000.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Title: Re: Repair usb drive
Post by: cyp86 on June 21, 2018, 10:49:08 AM

Okay so, I found that link which is working with my controller, I erased everything (flash & isp) and i'm now trying to reflow it, I dunno if this is gonna work cause I have a lot of badblocks (which are being erased too) and it's taking a lot of time and heating. Does anyone know if I'm doing the right things ?

Title: Re: Repair usb drive
Post by: cyp86 on June 21, 2018, 11:51:52 AM

Okay so, for anyone who's having the same problem (even if i think that i'm the only one), you can download chipeasy to find your chip model, then download the factory soft to flash your chip, you just have to erase the firmware and the isp and then install the factory ones, it did solve my problem.

Title: Re: Repair usb drive
Post by: Mark. on June 21, 2018, 04:24:15 PM

with new ones being so cheap, why risk using a known unreliable device with bad blocks which has already caused grief at least once?

Title: Re: Repair usb drive
Post by: patio on June 21, 2018, 04:25:51 PM

Re-flowing a USB drive ? ?...Really ?

Why not do my method...mistakenly leave in jeans pocket...find in washer...put back in jeans pocket...full dryer cycle...Done.

Needs 1 extra Bounce sheet to work.

Title: Re: Repair usb drive
Post by: Mark. on June 21, 2018, 07:58:04 PM

"re-flowing"  -  predictive text perhaps?   ;D

Title: Re: Repair usb drive
Post by: patio on June 21, 2018, 09:03:06 PM

that's what the extra sheet of Bounce is for...