Being at college and being somewhat the tech guy on compus (small campus) I had a fellow student today bring me her Lexar 128 MB flash drive. Her computer no longer responds to it when she plugs it into her computer. (the computer does not try to install it or anything.) I took the flash drive and tried it on two other computers. Same response. You plug it in and nothing happens. I'm assuming it's dead.

Here's the problem: She kept everything on that flashdrive and do I mean everything. Every paper, note, or school related file was kept only on that flashdrive. (Advised her to keep a backup on her hard drive a few weeks ago, but ironically didn't take advice.) So basically when that died, her last eight months of note-taking died, too. Is there any way to recover this data? Even if we only were able to get back parts of it, that would be a major improvement. Any tips or suggestions here would be extremely helpful. The sooner I have an answer for her, the better.

- Xierox