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darien95 · 11-23-2008, 05:02 AM

I have a Quantum Fireball 20GB hard drive with four broken pins. The broken pins are 20(key), 22(ground), 38(IDE_CS1), and 40(ground). Which ones of these are necessary for the hard drive to be detected? I've tried the hard drive in two different PCs and with different IDE cables, but it won't be detected by the BIOS. I'm not sending it to data recovery and I'd rather not have to buy a new board for it. I believe I can fix it by putting staples or pins in the IDE holes that connect to the broken pins, but I'm not sure how to do this properly.

11-23-2008, 05:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
darien95 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 4 OS: Windows 7	Help fixing broken IDE pins on my hard drive I have a Quantum Fireball 20GB hard drive with four broken pins. The broken pins are 20(key), 22(ground), 38(IDE_CS1), and 40(ground). Which ones of these are necessary for the hard drive to be detected? I've tried the hard drive in two different PCs and with different IDE cables, but it won't be detected by the BIOS. I'm not sending it to data recovery and I'd rather not have to buy a new board for it. I believe I can fix it by putting staples or pins in the IDE holes that connect to the broken pins, but I'm not sure how to do this properly.