One of Metro IT's friends had a problem with her USB thumb drive. It wouldn't work on her computer.

We thought that was odd but decided to see if we could help. So I took her drive back to our shop and plugged it in our computer and we could see that the computer wanted to recognize the drive but the light on the thumb drive kept flickering so we knew it wasn't keeping a solid connection to the computer. So we tried wiggling around the drive and it sort of worked. We tried pinching it and that worked better but only for a second or two. So we got a pair of pliers and used that to apply firm pressure to the non-working thumb drive and was able to extract all of the data off of the previously non-functioning thumb drive.

So one of the morals to this story is that a thumb drive is not a good device for being the only location of important data because the drives can go bad.