hard drive with broken pin

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dear all,
Does anyone know if there is any way i can repair a hard drive with a broken
pin? Broke it accidentally and now the hard drive cannot work :(

Thanks.

wishes,
Rainbow
 
Smart Idiot said:
dear all,
Does anyone know if there is any way i can repair a hard drive with a broken
pin? Broke it accidentally and now the hard drive cannot work :(

Thanks.

wishes,
Rainbow
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Depends upon what type of pin, I'll assume it's a ide pin (a power pin
would be easier).
Haven't tried this, but you might insert a small piece of a clipped off
straight pin (with the sharp end out) into the ide or scsi cable (slightly
longer than the original pins) corresponding to the position of the broken
pin.
Hopefully, the tight fit will force a contact to the drive (the other pins
are encompassed by the cable and need not be presses as tight).
 
With allot of research you should be able to buy a new IDE connector and
solder it on - would likely be much cheaper than throwing out the drive to
buy a replacement (unless its a really old, low capacity one). A website to
start at would be www.molex.com - don't know if they have representatives in
Singapore but if so, talking to those people should yield some part numbers.
I've done this before with a couple of different specialist computer
plugs/connectors eg ATX power connector, motherboard serial port. If you're
not up to the soldering job yourself, I'd imagine there'll be IT companies
around that would do it (for a price - in that case it may be cheaper just
to buy a new one).

Paul
 
Smart said:
dear all,
Does anyone know if there is any way i can repair a hard drive with a broken
pin? Broke it accidentally and now the hard drive cannot work :(

Thanks.

wishes,
Rainbow
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Someone with soldering skills should be able to take a pin from a scrap
circuit card and replace just the broken pin. I have done this several
times, but it is not for someone who has never soldered on PWBs before.
An old PWB from an IDE logic board, or even some other scrap PWB with
similar pins should provide a source for a replacement pin.
 
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