Pulled out IDE HDD pin

Seeing the drive drive is dead for all purposes try this. Take the pc board off your missing pin drive, and remove the rest of the pin. Fine soldering will be needed, so if you cannot do it, take it to someone that has got that extra fine touch. Get an older ide drive (pref a dead one) and use one of its pins. It should be fairly straight forward, just be carefull not to burn the pc board.
 
Dark agent said:
80gig... thats peanuts.... 10gig must be windows
10gig must be free

so 60gig is left off data

peanuts

can recover with bitfarm 60 * R7 = R420 >>>> I assume that R69 for 10gig

I lost 460gig..... Luckily there were all movies by MR Video which my friend rented.:p
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Yip, peanuts.

Game installs and some international downloads. :(

Just seems like it could be something easily repairable. ;)
 
ya, but losing a C++ project in a flash drive is worse!

Took me 1year and three months for one project.
 
PostmanPot said:
How similar would it need to be?

I have another 160GB Western Digital IDE. This one is a Seagate.

Thanks for your help all.
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With that I mean the exact same make and model HDD.

So you'll need the exact same Seagate model HDD in order to use its pcboard.
 
The_Librarian said:
With that I mean the exact same make and model HDD.

So you'll need the exact same Seagate model HDD in order to use its pcboard.
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Thought so. Eish, going to be hard.

So which pin is it? Ground or DDRQ?

How come I only have place for 39 pins?

Could I not try removing a jumper pin and placing it in the missing pin's hole? :D
 
The_Librarian said:
@ Postman - you can always look for another similar-specced HDD, swap the PC boards out and copy your data over.

Soldering work is tricky and delicate work...
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IMHO more chance of data loss due to maybe incompatible firmware.
 
Could I not use one of the jumper's pins to try a temporary fix?

Could I try using a thin needle/piece of wire?
 
Does a "replacement pin" have to be soldered or can it just touch the PCB? Superglue perhaps?

Hmmm...

'Scuse the spam.
 
PostmanPot said:
Thanks for this.

Any idea of costs?

I'm wondering if I should speak to dablkmark8, IIRC he repairs HDDs? Hmmm.
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If you know anyone in Capetown with soldering/desoldering equipment it is easilly accomplished. I have all the equipment required and will do it for free but I am in JHB.

If you snip a pin at the back from a old drive and pull it out then it can be pushed into the lost pin hole again and just be soldered to the existing pin portion that remained. No desoldering then required. The bad part is that its a pin closer to the board so you will have to force the "new" pin from the front and while pushing the remains out at back and then solder them together. A very this solder iron point will be required.
 
Postman why not the way i said, it needs to make contact, i think you could even get a smaller piece of copper and try it. It just needs to make contact.
 
I am Penguin said:
If you know anyone in Capetown with soldering/desoldering equipment it is easilly accomplished. I have all the equipment required and will do it for free but I am in JHB.

If you snip a pin at the back from a old drive and pull it out then it can be pushed into the lost pin hole again and just be soldered to the existing pin portion that remained. No desoldering then required. The bad part is that its a pin closer to the board so you will have to force the "new" pin from the front and while pushing the remains out at back and then solder them together. A very this solder iron point will be required.
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Thanks for your kindness. Worst comes to worst I'll have to get it soldered.

But there must be a ghetto way for a quick fix... :) See above?
 
killadoob said:
Postman why not the way i said, it needs to make contact, i think you could even get a smaller piece of copper and try it. It just needs to make contact.
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Yeah I'm looking.

Wonder if I could remove one of the jumper pins? Maybe not.
 
PostmanPot said:
Could I not use one of the jumper's pins to try a temporary fix?

Could I try using a thin needle/piece of wire?
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No you can only use a similar pin. Same size/shape diameter, longer should be fine.

Glue wont work. You have to solder.
 
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