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Harddrive pins

  • 17-08-2004 6:04pm
    #1
    banbutcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 483 ✭✭


    hi,
    i was removing one of my hdd's yesterday and i accidently broke off one of the pins where you plug it into the ide cable! is there anything i can do to get it back workin??
    Cheers
    sleepy


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  • #2
    michaelanthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 741 ✭✭✭michaelanthony


    Same thing kind of happened to me. One of the pins got bent. I straightened it, but I'm getting primary disk 0 not found :


  • #3
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    There's no easy way to do it but you could cut out the corrosponding wire in the IDE cable to the one that broke and solder it on to the corresponding pin on the bottom of the HDD. http://img29.exs.cx/img29/9149/ibm_18gb_udma_66_bottom.jpg


    But thats assuming those pins are open on your hdd and have something important enough on the HDD to put in all that effort and waste an IDE cable. :D


  • #4
    elmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭elmer


    you'd need to be decent at soldering to try this - i'd give it a bash if you liek - i think i have a spare ide able - it'd be old though so i don't know about the speed of it

    Nige


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