I have a SanDisk cruzer 2GB that has worked properly for many months. Today I plugged it into my USB port in my laptop and did not show that any storage devices were inserted. It also started to get extremly hot. is there any way can this be fixed without losing any work as i have extremly important documents on this

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You can try plugging it into a different computer, but it sounds like it has developed a short, if so the only possibility of repairing it is sending back to the manufacturer, and even then the data on it is probably gone already.