>From a practical perspective, your drive is *1GB *("Bus 001 Device 033: ID
0457:0151 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. Super Flash 1GB / GXT 64MB
Flash Drive").
I haven't had a USB flash drive that *small* in years. Unless you have data
on that drive you need, I'd just destroy the drive with a hammer and get a
new one.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 7:12 AM Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote:
> That's reminiscent of what I've seen with certain kinds of cell phones,
> where the USB port can switch personalities and look like different kinds
> of devices -- say a flash disk and a speaker/microphone. I've not seen
> anything before that switches between two different kinds of flash drives,
> though.
>
> It also sounds like it could be some sort of hardware security/encryption
> feature that got turned on. The fact that your getting any response at all
> makes it sound like it's probably not a completely broken connection.
>
> Another possibility could be that could be related to the loose pin would
> be that there is either not enough current reaching the flash drive (if the
> pin is one of the power pins) so it is in some kind of "power saving" or
> maintenance mode, or there is a short circuit or at least partial
> electromagnetic coupling between the loose pin and one of the other pins
> that's that's keeping things from working properly.
>
> Just some shotgun ideas that may not have anything to do with what's going
> on.
>
>
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