Hello,
I dropped my Macbook on the hard floor with my USB stick connected, by tripping over a wire. Luckily, it was out of batteries was and not on. The Mac started up (although it has a nice dent in it). The flash drive snapped on the four pins that connect it. I'm a novice with this stuff and have data on there I want to back up.
Basically the metal part separated from the board. The pins also have this brown stuff on them (solder, glue maybe?) I tried holding chip to the pins while it was plugged in which didn't work. I have no soldering iron, nor experience with one. Is there anything I could possibly due to just back up my data without a soldering iron or having to pay somebody?
It's an 8 Gigabyte Sandisk Cruzer.
Any help at all would be very much appreciated.
I dropped my Macbook on the hard floor with my USB stick connected, by tripping over a wire. Luckily, it was out of batteries was and not on. The Mac started up (although it has a nice dent in it). The flash drive snapped on the four pins that connect it. I'm a novice with this stuff and have data on there I want to back up.
Basically the metal part separated from the board. The pins also have this brown stuff on them (solder, glue maybe?) I tried holding chip to the pins while it was plugged in which didn't work. I have no soldering iron, nor experience with one. Is there anything I could possibly due to just back up my data without a soldering iron or having to pay somebody?
It's an 8 Gigabyte Sandisk Cruzer.
Any help at all would be very much appreciated.