Friend has a flash drive that was working OK, but when he plugged it in
yesterday, it didn't show in Explorer. When he plugs it in it makes the
appropriate sounds, but it doesn't appear in Explorer or Disk management. We
uninstalled all of the pertinent entries in Device Manager and tried it
again, and it all reinstalled perfectly, gave notice that it was in stalled,
etc., but in addition to not showing up, there is no "Safely Remove
Hardware" icon, no mention of the device when I force the "safely remove"
dialogue.

Tried it on another machine with the same results, tried another stick on my
friend's machine and it works fine. Is this thing toast? Is there no utility
that can reach into the "drive's" guts and make it come back out of hiding,
or is it irrecoverable corruption?

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Ronin