Repairing corrupted USB Drives

[sc0rpi0]

My friend owns five usb drives which he has managed to corrupt over time.

When they are plugged in, they display an error when trying to be written to. I would like to help him repair these.

I've done *some* research on this topic but to no avail. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[SomeoneE1se]

according to the error that gave us the only way to fix it, is to drop it in a blender on high...

thumb drives are cheep and can be bought just about anywhere, tell him to replace it.

[Sparda]

according to the error that gave us the only way to fix it, is to drop it in a blender on high...

thumb drives are cheep and can be bought just about anywhere, tell him to replace it.

and should never be used to store the only copy of important files.

[nicatronTg]

These are dirt cheap, and they are quite fast for portable apps and switchblades.

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_...duct_id=0280099

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_...duct_id=0267424

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

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_...duct_id=0250132

I use the eight gigabyte version, and it works great.