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So this happened to my WD Blue today

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How do I even fix this?

the plastic housing thing for the gold pins broke off.

 

 

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The best way would be to source an identical dead drive from somewhere and swap out the entire PCB & casing.

 

Otherwise on Amazon you can buy Plastic Glue/Weld which would stick it back on but it probably would last for very long.

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11 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

The best way would be to source an identical dead drive from somewhere and swap out the entire PCB & casing.

 

Otherwise on Amazon you can buy Plastic Glue/Weld which would stick it back on but it probably would last for very long.

Oh I see. The plastic housing is not in a attachable condition because it sorta crumbled. Is swapping out a pcb faily easy to do? Basically just unscrewing the old and screwing in the new right?  Or is there any connection related things that has to be done?

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9 minutes ago, Fenrir8080 said:

Oh I see. The plastic housing is not in a attachable condition because it sorta crumbled. Is swapping out a pcb faily easy to do? Basically just unscrewing the old and screwing in the new right?  Or is there any connection related things that has to be done?

Normally any connections are made using those small white plugs which are easy to disconnect and reconnect.

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Drives normally have an eeprom chip that includes calibrations etc on the PCB, so swapping the PCB would also require swapping the eeprom.

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