Hi guys (and gals)

I've run into a rather annoying problem: When I backed up my personal documents on two external drives, one a USB stick, the other an external harddrive, before formatting my drives several months ago, all was fine. I then copied over the documents from my external hard drive and deleted the files off the drive to make space for other backups. Well, I ended up having to format a month ago again due to a software issue and now that I want to access my documents, I find that the only backup, my USB stick, refuses to work.

Normally, when plugged in, it will light up its blue light, flashing for a short while before staying lit and being usable. Now, it flashes up birhgtly and then slowly dims down until it is off and its not usable at all.

Anyone got any hints on how I could recover my files from that drive? In my opinion, the files should be fine but there is some problems with the electrical circuit according to the symptoms, but I'm not really sure.

Thanks!