Flash drive problem

[tony4662]

Hi , can anyone please, please help me, I have a lot of photos on my flash drive which has been working ok, up until today (07/04/10) now when I plug it in, the little light does`nt come on, and theres nothing coming up on my pc, in other words, I think its died on me. Is there any way possible of getting these things working again.
I have windows XP, and the flash drive is a Kingston Data Traveler.
Any help PLEASE.
Thanks.

[ChuckFickens]

Try it in another computer.

If it still won't recognise in another computer then sorry to say, but you may have just learnt why you should always have a backup of anything you don't want to lose.

[tony4662]

thanks Chuck, yep Ive tried in another pc , but no luck. I know, BACK UP, ive heard it so many times but think it wont happen to me. wot an idiot.
Cheers

[another-view]

You MUST back up your data especially from something as flimsy as a USB stick. Unfortunately, you have learned this the hard way.

[hundreddolla]

If it was REALLY important info / pics, there are companies out there who do data recovery on dead hard drives so there may be hope! Google data recovery.