How to make my SanDisk Cruzer Blade 4GB disk back to normal?

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Published on 2012-11-19T04:42:24Z Indexed on 2012/11/19 5:06 UTC
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Currently, my SanDisk Cruzer Blade 4GB have become a 64MB Firebird RAW flash drive (thumb drive). I don't know why it become like this but when I plug it into a PC, it suddenly transform itself to become a 64MB flash drive. (From 4 GB to 64 MB, that is a huge change!)

I read the following articles:

and notice that their solutions does not work at all.

Some of their solution is as follows:

  • Using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=1970), which did not work for me as it could not format.

  • Using the h2testw to see if it is genuine, which did not work for me because it is a RAW partition.

  • Return to the vendor, which I doubt since the product only have 1 year warranty and it has expired.

I also notice that the flash drive is very fragile as after a few use, the flash drive have become something like the following: (The upper cover of the USB connector was broken or torn)

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So, wondering if someone have any good solution to fix it back so that at least I can retrieve my data on the fragile thumb drive.

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