billiebobjoebil

ok my 40 pin connecter has 1 of the pins pushed in and it broke off and now the bios isnt reading the hard drive what do i do can i like fix it or like take it to a store where they can transfer the files over to a new one what do i do or what can i do plz help

Done_Fishin

What you need is a tech who could remove the 40 pin connector from another (non-working) drive and put it on yours ..

another possibility would be to bypass the broken pin and solder or direct to the IDE connector. this would also depened whether it is on the hidden side of the connector or the outside where the pins are soldered to the board. A tech might even be able to remove the broken pin and replace it ..

or This could be done by soldering a wire from the HDD and connecting direct to a second drive.

Until someone sees what is the real damage and situation it is not eally possible to be explicit!

If you just want to get the data off from one disk to a new one .. a bodge connection soldering a wire from the missing pin (at the board) and connecting into the IDE cable might work long enough to offload data..

linderman

DONT open the drive case!


in your shoes I would send the drive back to the manufacturer with instructions that you want the same drive back!

you may get lucky and do as Done has suggested, I would bring it to a tech shop. Many colleges have computer departments that would love to be able to demonstrate such a fix to the students.

Done_Fishin

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.