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Originally Posted by linderman
DONT open the drive case!
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I should have thought of that too!
the board, where the 40 pin connectors is located, is held in place by several screws. A tech person will have a screwdriver that fits these screws in the event that the board requires removal, to gain access to the broken pin. To remove any ONE of those pins will require that ALL pins are desoldered. DO NOT try to do this yourself.
You may even be lucky enough to find a scrap drive of the same type where the disk is bad sectored but the electronics OK. that would just require a swap. I am assuming that the drive is an older drive and not a new one .. since whenever I have heard of a drive being returned to the manufacturer (within guarantee period) the returned drive has usually been of larger size than the original. I don't think this is because of good
PR (public relations) but more because the manufacturer will not keep old drives preferring to keep costs minimised by giving a new drive when an old one fails within warranty. Keeping stock wrequires warehousing which is an overhead that costs money .. cheaper to replace with a larger drive from the production line and give the customer a "bonus" along the way. Unfortunately that means no repairs and very little chance of getting the same drive back.