unplugged unsafely, now not recognized.. is it dead?

[ReelFiles]

Man this sucks, I was in a hurry leaving for work today, so I yanked my 1gb flash drive out of my rig, without 'safely removing hardware'. I've done that a million times before in Windows, but this time it was in ubuntu.

 

When I got to work and I wanted to run some stress tests on laptops off the flash drive. It just kept coming up as 'not recognized USB device'. I am pretty sure it's fubared, but I still got some hope. I tried plugging it back into the Linux rig at home too, but nada. Neither in Windows or Linux does the activity light blink.

 

I also happened to have the flash drive in my pocket while I got electrocuted by a LCD inverter, early in the day. Slim chance but that might have something to do with it too. It was a tiny shock, but strong enough to burn a tiny hole in my finger. I was wearing a ground strap too,

 

I was wondering if the firmware got killed on it and if there was a way to re-flash it, or if there is some sort of driver to make this thing recognized. It's a 1gb Micro Center, the numbers on it are G01G, presumably the model number or MF2690031 which I think is just the serial number.

[red930]

I have the micro cruiser. did that with mine. and one day it also quit working. I aways just yanked it out. there was nothing i could do with it. them one day i went to there web site and seen an uninstaller for U3 or what ever it is and uninstalled U3 and reformatted it and its works grate now

[ReelFiles]

I had a that drive too, same thing happened to that one, but I still have another one. Wish I would have held on to it, that might have saved it. This is the drive, btw

 

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_...duct_id=0242478

[red930]

look up the wed site and see how to uninstall U2 or 3 lol the U3 is an ISO like to make it work on any PC. it get crup unplugging it. then it alows windows to reformat it. then its clean of all there folders and ..

 

EDIT dont know if this will help ?

http://www.ipsgproducts.com/products/usb_s...AQ_article.html

[ReelFiles]

This is weird, I plugged it back in after downloading the ipsg flash drive utility and it started working again, without me even using the utility. I tried it on ubuntu again and now it won't work once again. The utility won't work if the system won't recognize the drive. I'll let it sit for a while and see if it works on it's own again. I won't use it on the ubuntu rig anymore.