Broken HDD Sata Connecter

[Arbird]

Hi,

This is the first system I've built, and while I was trying to plug in my 24 pin motherboard cable I accidentally snapped off the hard part of the Sata data Connecter on my wd hard drive. I thought it was no big deal so I taped it up with some electrical tape and installed my OS on it. It was all working fine for a while but one day when I booted it up it tried to boot from the cd rom drive in it! I went into the BIOS and the motherboard wasn't reading it. So I stripped off the electrical tape and tried to tape it again, which didn't work. I don't know if I'm going to have to sodder it together, and if I just screw it and throw my drive away will I also lose my OS?

Thanks,

Aedan

P.S, If you can't tell from the picture, I still have the plastic bit lodged in the Sata Connecter.

[Dzzope]

As soon as you did it you should have returned as damaged on recieved... you can try fix it but you won't be able to return it now.. been too long most likely.

[snkmoorthy]

Just look for a controller board for your drive on eBay and replace it with that. OR get random junk drive and use the SATA connector and solder it in place.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

Hi,

This is the first system I've built, and while I was trying to plug in my 24 pin motherboard cable I accidentally snapped off the hard part of the Sata data Connecter on my wd hard drive. I thought it was no big deal so I taped it up with some electrical tape and installed my OS on it. It was all working fine for a while but one day when I booted it up it tried to boot from the cd rom drive in it! I went into the BIOS and the motherboard wasn't reading it. So I stripped off the electrical tape and tried to tape it again, which didn't work. I don't know if I'm going to have to sodder it together, and if I just screw it and throw my drive away will I also lose my OS?

Thanks,

Aedan

P.S, If you can't tell from the picture, I still have the plastic bit lodged in the Sata Connecter.

contact the manufacturer's support and see if you can get a replacement under warranty. I recently had a samsung 840 evo with the exact same issue, and it was replaced under warranty even though I didn't have the receipt. it even had two pins that got pushed in like yours.

[Captain_WD]

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Hey Arbird,

 

Sorry to hear about your problem. I would advise you to take the drive to a technician and see if the part can be soldered back so you can take your data back. If the drive is still under warranty, I would suggest to contact our support and see if the drive can be exchanged. Here are the contacts: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ScWt7w

 

Captain_WD.

[BUREIDEN]

Hi,

This is the first system I've built, and while I was trying to plug in my 24 pin motherboard cable I accidentally snapped off the hard part of the Sata data Connecter on my wd hard drive. I thought it was no big deal so I taped it up with some electrical tape and installed my OS on it. It was all working fine for a while but one day when I booted it up it tried to boot from the cd rom drive in it! I went into the BIOS and the motherboard wasn't reading it. So I stripped off the electrical tape and tried to tape it again, which didn't work. I don't know if I'm going to have to sodder it together, and if I just screw it and throw my drive away will I also lose my OS?

Thanks,

Aedan

P.S, If you can't tell from the picture, I still have the plastic bit lodged in the Sata Connecter.

Just buy a cheap on from eBay and or spend another 50 on a WD Blue 1T

[Arbird]

I called Western Digital and it was under warranty.  Thank's so much for the help!