Bought this thumb drive back in 4/7/14. It worked great until now. It had ~54 GB of my fav mp3 files on it, roughly ~10,000 songs. Kept it plugged into my vehicles 24/7 during that time all year long. All four seasons and vehicles were in a garage during winter. It worked great playing my music all that time.
However starting 3 months ago my new car would report once in awhile, it could not find/recognize this device. I would just unplug and plug it in again and it would begin playing again. Then this would happen again a bit more frequently as time went on. Would simply unplug and plug in again and as all was well. Then yesterday that no longer worked. Now it just won't play any music. At first thought it may be an issue with the usb plug in my car. So tried running that flash drive on my desktop PC. Same results! PC can't open or recognize this flash drive! So I conclude flash drive failed.
It there anyway to repair this flash drive or is it a toast?
Did try this but that does not work. Can't format flash drive or it still will not be recognized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbCIB-_khc
Ubuntu 20.04.06 LTS 64bit Ext4 on a Dell Studio XPS Desktop Intel® Core™ i7-860 2.8GHz, 8GB DDR3 ram