Hard Drive Power Pins Broke how do i fix this?

[darkskies]

I have a 120gig hard drive however all 4 of the power pins on the back broke is there somethin i can buy or do to fix this so i can get power to it?

thnx guys

[Soopafresh]

Depends how important the data is to you. You can buy an identical drive, and remove the printed circuit board from the new drive. You'll need a small hex screwdriver to do this. The drive MUST be the same model. Then, remove the "bad" printed circuit board from your old drive and attach the new one to it.

[ozymango]

Dare I ask how you managed to break all 4 pins off?

Depending where the pins broke off (did the pc board on the drive get damaged at all or is this literally just the metal pins?), if you look at the drive from underneath you should be able to see the solder connections for those 4 pins.

You can then get a hard drive power extension cable, cut one end off it so you've got 4 wires, and then solder those wires to the hard drive and voila, it's fixed.

If the preceding paragraph made no sense to you whatsover, I wouldn't recommend you try this method because you could toast something in the process if you're not careful.

[rallynavvie]

Not to mention you'd be after the MO platters and not the PCB inside the hard drive case