How to revive a Corsair Joyager USB 3.0 thumbdrive?

[7beauties]

Friend:

I have a 64GB Corsair Joyager 3.0 thumbdrive that's dead to two PCs I plug it into. Though not the end of the world, it contained much of what's important to me. I heard about HP's Drive Key Boot Utility, but I don't want to format my stricken thumbdrive, I want to wake it back up. I would be grateful for advice. Thank you.

 

[corkyg]

Generally speaking, thumbdrives are either good or bad. Their failure rate is higher than most other media. Therefore, they should not be used for critical long term storage. Prudent use would have everything on a thumbdrive stored permanently elsewhere, so that the thumbdrive can be easily replaced. "Waking up" is not an option in my world.

 

[hojnikb]

you can revive the drives in most cases using controllers mp/ctool, but you can kiss your data goodbye. its really irresponsible to keep important data on flash drives

 

[Raizinman]

I had a 128G jump drive that could not be seen by numerous computers that I tried it in. Eventually after trying numerous things I gave up and just reformatted it. Its working good now. At least for the time being.