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It depends on the "complaint". If the problem is in the computer, you can fix it; perhaps you have a virus or some such corruption. If the problem is the flash drive, there is very little you can do, because it is not repairable. Some firms specialize in data retrieval from damaged drives (flash included), with no guarantee of success, but you are talking a significant cost to do that. Best is to have a backup in place - sorry, but that's the way it works.

One of the not so well understood issues of flash drives is that there is a limit on how many times you can write to them. This limit varies between 100,000 for older drives to over a million for newer drives. Modern drives extend this further by providing automatic sector leveling, which spreads the write cycles out among different sectors. The bottom line, unfortunately, is that when the drive goes bad, and they all do, it is bad. Period.

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