Comments on: Lexar Jump Drive Goes Swimming

By: Mike B

Mike B — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:24:33 +0000

I unfortunately didn’t have quite the same good fortune with my
little swimmer. My 8GB firefly once dried out came up
“needs to be formatted”.
I have lost over 200 hours of work unless someone can offer some advice or tell me where to send it to see if the data can be retrieved.

“HELP”

Thanks, Mike B
Teacher in Starke, Florida

By: Brownie

Brownie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:09:26 +0000

I had a similar experience with a 512 mb Lexar (the lime green one); however, mine went through wash and dryer (!) and worked just fine. The light didn’t even fall out, and all the data was still there, untouched, even thought the cap had come off. Go Lexar!

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:42:33 +0000

Dan I’ve washed a few thumb drives and if you let them dry for a day they seem to always work again.