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Originally Posted by Misoprostol  Anyone here ever broken the plastic piece on a SATA data connector and successfully reattached it. Mine broke off in the cable that it was connected to, but when I put the contacts back into the broken off bit in the end of teh cable it worked. Now that I've tried to glue it, my hard drive is not being detected. It's a shame because it's a Seagate 7200.8 250GB drive..... Anyone actually done this successfully? |
I've done it a few times before and it's a bitch. You have to get another (defective) SATA HDD that has the connector and remove it. The hard part is lining all the pins up for the reinstall st the usually aren't all in line. I used the tip of a micro screwdriver to push the ends in one at a time till it slid on. I would only really recommend this if you had data on there that you really want back and don't want to pay the exorbitant amount of money a data recovery agency would charge. Even if you had to buy an identical drive it would still be cheaper. Actually, on that hand, you could just exchange the circuit boards with connector and all, that would be fairly simple.:cool: