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I am trying to fix this USB stick for a friend who ripped it out of their computer incorrectly resulting in the filesystem being destroyed to the max, and the device showing a capacity which is clearly wrong. I brought up Testdisk to see if this would help me recover the partitions on the disk, but that just gave me this:

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And when i try to go into it and do a scan it comes back with nothing of use.

Is there any way to recover this device or is this the result of a physical fault on the device which is beyond any repair?

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    I am not an expert in data recovery, but in the few times I have tried, if TestDisk can't see the drive size correctly then there is something in the flash or the controller that is damaged and it cannot be recovered.
    – techturtle
    Commented Nov 14, 2017 at 17:29

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You cannot fix hardware damage using software. Given that the controller reports a totally wrong size, the drive is physically damaged.

Just throw it away.

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  • I was afraid that this was the case. Just wanted confirmation from people better qualified than myself. Thanks for providing it :)
    – user3407675
    Commented Nov 15, 2017 at 12:40

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