SanDisk Data Recovery
You may only get one chance to recover your data. Don’t let just anyone work on your media, we have over a decade worth of experience working in flash media. Flash media can fail for many reasons power surges, damaged connectors, cell degradation. Whatever the cause we can likely recover it.
Need your data recovered? We keep it simple, fill out a ticket which generates a free shipping label, once we receive the media we’ll look at it within a day and email you a file list for you to verify. If everything looks good you pay online and we’ll copy the data to another flash drive and mail it back. If you’re in a rush we can email or FTP the data so you can get it back the same day.
SanDisk Cruzer & Ultra USB Flash Drive Recovery
SanDisk USB drives — the Cruzer Blade, Cruzer Glide, Cruzer Switch, Cruzer Fit, Ultra, and Ultra Flair — are some of the most common drives we recover. The most frequent failures we see are a snapped or wobbly USB connector, a drive that’s no longer detected, or one that shows up but reports 0 bytes or asks to be formatted. In almost every case the NAND memory is fine and the data is fully recoverable.
Many SanDisk USB drives are monolithic (the controller and memory are fused into one chip), so when the connector or controller fails we read the NAND directly and rebuild your files. We’ve documented real Cruzer and Ultra recoveries, including a Cruzer 64GB SDCZ36 broken connector, a Cruzer Glide 16GB SDCZ60, an Ultra SDCZ48 512GB, and our first-ever 1TB Ultra Flair recovery. Submit a case to start a recovery.
SanDisk SD & MicroSD Card Recovery
We recover data from the full SanDisk card range — Ultra, Extreme, and Extreme Pro SD and microSD cards used in cameras, GoPros, drones, dashcams, and phones. Typical symptoms are a card that reads as corrupted, throws a “memory card error,” prompts you to format, or simply isn’t recognized. Don’t reformat it; the photos and video are usually still intact on the NAND.
All microSD cards and many SD cards are monolithic, which is exactly the work we specialize in. We’ve also written up SanDisk card cases, including diagnosing monolithic SanDisk SD cards and a solved SD card repair. Start your card recovery and we’ll send a free shipping label.
SanDisk Drive Not Recognized, Dead, or Asking to Format?
When a SanDisk drive isn’t detected at all, shows up as “removable disk” with no size, or asks to be formatted the moment you plug it in, it usually points to a controller fault, a damaged connector, or worn NAND — not lost data. Repeatedly plugging it in or running repair software can make recovery harder, so the safest move is to stop using it.
We diagnose at the component level, repair board damage, and read the memory directly to rebuild your files. See our writeups on a SanDisk Cruzer SDDDC3 that wasn’t detected, a Cruzer Glide 128GB with weak NAND, and a SanDisk Extreme CZ80 that died. Submit your case now for a free prepaid shipping label.
SanDisk Controller & Model Reference
Because SanDisk uses many different controllers and NAND configurations across its lineup, we maintain detailed internal references for matching a failed drive to the right recovery approach. If you want to dig deeper, browse our SanDisk Data Recovery Database and our guide to SanDisk broken connector repair. For other brands and failure types, see our USB flash drive data recovery and Samsung flash drive recovery pages. Not sure what you have? Send it in and we’ll identify it for you at no charge.

We’re able to do component level diagnosis and repair to recover your data. Other data recovery companies stop at off-chip recovery. We know which components fail and on what media to get the best quality recovery possible for your case.
You may only get one chance to recover your data, having the proper team behind you to recover your information may be the difference between getting everything or getting nothing.

