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Buy a SATA extention cable, cut the cable and solder the wires.
If you do it carefully, the drive will work fine for years that way.
And once it's repaired, the first task is to start doing backups correct?
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OK
So I had a local computer shop solder a SATA cable onto the SATA pins of the drive. It all seems to work just fine. Windows sees the drive, I can access it and I am not getting any errors. Windows did want to run check disk on it but I canceled that.
Now I am readyto copy the files over to a new drive but I am still worried about data corruption during the transfer. Does Windows correct for that, like ask the drive to resend any data that differs from the original or do I need a special program to copy my files and make sure that they are copied correctly?
OK
So I had a local computer shop solder a SATA cable onto the SATA pins of the drive. It all seems to work just fine. Windows sees the drive, I can access it and I am not getting any errors. Windows did want to run check disk on it but I canceled that.
Now I am readyto copy the files over to a new drive but I am still worried about data corruption during the transfer. Does Windows correct for that, like ask the drive to resend any data that differs from the original or do I need a special program to copy my files and make sure that they are copied correctly?
My main drive has had a broken clip for over a year now.
Carefully slide the cable back on, and gently put it back in the case and make sure the cable is still in, it takes very little force to have it come loose.
Then, simply don't bump or move the computer ever again unless you want a quick reboot!
....really seems like this is being made more complicated than needed.
I had the same issue...
I inserted the plastic bit from the drive I to a data cable, slipped it back overy the metal contacts and super glued it in place.
That was 5 years ago for the main drive in my media server.