Broken SATA power Connector

[Linkin Park]

So i had to take out a HD out of my P180 case(i hate opening this case). and when i was pulling otu the HD rack the back HD still had the power cable plugged in and i pulled the rack out and smash the little "L" shapped part on the hard drive snapped off. I was soo pissed because it was a 500gig Seagate barricuda thats part of my raid 0 so im pretty much f'ed. All of the pins are intact and bent a little bit so i can put those back. can anyone suggest a macgyver way of hooking up the power to it so i can use it, or at the least get my data off of it?

 

[msabo]

Hmmmm. I guess I would buy a molex to SATA adapter. Remove the SATA connector and create a pigtail. Then I would connect the pigtail, wire by wire, to the HDD.

 

[bexamous]

What actually broke off? Just the plastic part? Put it back where it was supposed to be, might have to put the pins straight again against hte plastic. Then just carefully slide a power cable over it.

Also if you have a molex->sata power cable you can then also just put hotglue all over it to stop the connector from falling off. Otherwise just hold it until u get data off.

I actually know of a couple drives we did this to with hotglue and been using them for many months now.

 

[DrStrangeBrew]

Hot glue is a good suggestion ..... & if you wanted something less permanent, but that would also protect the wiring/interconnects, you could put on a bunch of di-electric grease ... any auto parts store will have it by their spark plug/distributor area

 

[Linkin Park]

Thanks for the replies i have managed to find a temporary macgyver way of getting it to work and boot up. I have already ordered a replacement drive for it. My next question how would i go about replacing it in the array. If i clone the old broken hd to the new one will the new one work in the array?

 

[Syntax Error]

Thanks for the replies i have managed to find a temporary macgyver way of getting it to work and boot up. I have already ordered a replacement drive for it. My next question how would i go about replacing it in the array. If i clone the old broken hd to the new one will the new one work in the array?

In theory, it should, as long as you carry over all the metadata that signals the motherboard RAID controller which particular drive in the array it was, and all the data along with it, it should be able to work. I'd recommend that you do use the same size HDD and if possible, the model as well.

 

[Linkin Park]

In theory, it should, as long as you carry over all the metadata that signals the motherboard RAID controller which particular drive in the array it was, and all the data along with it, it should be able to work. I'd recommend that you do use the same size HDD and if possible, the model as well.

Yeah i just ordered the same exact one off newegg hopefully itll work. If not i got all the important stuff backed up onto another computer since i got it to boot just hope itll still work. thanks fo rthe replies