Not that I think ur an idiot or anything but its not just locked is it?

"Jocrisse" wrote:

> I have a Freecom Data-bar 512 mb USB stick, USB 2.0 flash storage device.
> Until recently it worked perfectly. Since a few days it shows up in
> Explorer, as removable storage (I guess that's the translation of the Dutch
> "Verwisselbare schijf", but when I select the drive I get the error "There is
> no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive" ("Dutch: plaats een
> schijf of een ander geschikt medium in station ...").
> I tried it on 4 different computers, all the same error. Win XP, Win XP Pro,
> so drivers shouldn't be needed (and have never been, since the usb stick
> worked fine before).
> In the Control Panel, no error, the stick should work.
>
> I tried several data recovery programs, but the usb stick just isn't
> accessable.
>
> Is there anayway to retrieve the data on the disk?
> Thanks in advance for your reply.
>
> PS1: returning the stick to the vendor isn't an option, since it was a gift
> and don't know where it was bought.
> PS2: I already emailed Freecom Databar, but no answer so far.
>
> The USB stick:
> http://www.freecom.com/ecProduct_det...+512MB+USB%2D2