Corsair Flash Voyager: The Unbreakable Broke

The Operation

We decided to get an USB extension cable (the one that usually comes with USB flash drives), cut off one of its ends, and solder the wires to place where the original connector was soldered.

Figure 5: USB extension cable.

So, we cut the plug that we didn’t need (we kept the plug that was identical to the one originally attached to the USB drive). On the cable shown in Figure 5, we cut off the plug located on the left hand side and kept the plug located on the right hand side.

Figure 6: Cable without the unwanted plug.

We peeled off the wires and with a multitester we checked how the wires were connected to the plug, i.e., to which pin each wire was connected. You should do this by yourself, since the wires on your cable can be connected differently from ours.

After that we soldered each wire to the corresponding pin on the flash drive PCB. This should be done observing where each pin on the flash USB drive PCB was connected on its original plug.

Figure 7: Our USB drive recovered.

After soldering all wires and checking to ensure that there was no connection between them, we connected the cable to our desktop and transferred all data to our hard drive. We could keep using our USB drive that way for ages, but we thought it was too risky. We wanted a better product to carry our data around. So after this procedure our disassembled Corsair Flash Voyager went to our trash bin.