Help! Can't connect my sata drive (literally)

T

Trunks7j

n00b
Joined
Oct 23, 2005
Messages
5
So i have a 300 gig sATA drive from Seagate which I have been using for a couple years now. When I pulled it out of my old box to put in the new computer im building, I must not have noticed right away but when I went to plug it in, I noticed that the little long plastic "L" shape thing that sits directly over the pins was completely broken off. All the pins are still there and aren't bent or anything, but I cant really plug the cable in and have it hold in place because of the missing plastic that is supposed to fill the gap. I tried aligning the cable with the pins as best as i could and using a weight to hold it in place--when i scanned for the HD in the BIOS it seemed to take a lot longer than my first attempt, so I thought i was making some progress, but it still didn't recognize the harddrive.

Ive got alot of information on this hard drive I don't want to lose...and Im sure the disk is perfectly fine, i just have no way of connecting it. What should I do? help guys!
 
Superglue the plastic piece back on.


Last resort would be to buy another drive and swap the boards.
 
The only problem is ... i didnt see it break off and have NO idea where it is (I looked for it for a while).

The drive is under warranty still with seagate so I could get a new one for free, but I assume I have to send this one in first, and I'd lose all my data. I just need a way to get the data off of it.
 
If you're willing to sacrifice a sata cable, you could join the cable to the drive directly. I'm not sure how well this would work, but there's ECC so it shouldn't corrupt anything.
 
unhappy_mage said:
If you're willing to sacrifice a sata cable, you could join the cable to the drive directly. I'm not sure how well this would work, but there's ECC so it shouldn't corrupt anything.
Click to expand...

This is probably the best, most likely to succeed option. Plus, get a sata cable online, theyre cheap.
 
Well i've got an extra sATA cable but I'm not sure how I would connect it... are you talking about sauldering the contacts on the cable to the pins on the drive?
 
well in your first post you said all the pins are still there, so you dont need to solder. you should be able to superglue (krazy glue) the sata cable's plug to the harddrive's so you have a permanent connection.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top