broken off plastic holder on drive for SATA cble

[aaro]

hey,
I got a problem that im stuck on..

I have a p/n:0F10383 APR-2010 1Tera rated: 5V 450mA.12V 700mA
SATA 3.0 Gb/s RPM 7200RPM
Hitachi Harddrive 1 TB.

I have 2 of these installed in my PC.
Now the plastic L shaped holder on the hard drive that hold the Cable to the drive has broken off.

Is there a way to change this out or what is the best solution?
also
this harddrive is suddenly makinga single tone beep noise while in operation. the sound is light and goes on and off in 1/2 sec intervals... What could this mean?

this hard drive has I believe all my win startup etc.. on it along with other stuff..
If this isnt savable, then what can I best do?

thanks for any help

[stroyal]

Welcome to TechIMO!

By the plastic holder, do you mean the plug that the data cable plugs on to.

If you broke that, the drive is trash, unless you are extremely good at fixing electronics, at a factory level.

Even then it probably is trash.

[stroyal]

If you have data, you need, there are companies that will disassemble you broken drive, and place the disks in a good drive, and recover your data, but they are very expensive.

[aaro]

yes its the little plastic piece that looks like a "L". its right next to the metal contacts on the harddrive, it holds the cable in place so it doesnt fall off the HDrive. Other drives might have something different, not sure.

I ws able to "sort of " glue the plastic back onto the drive but it still is beeping and no program is able to start., also when running up Bios, it listed all SATA on PC ( i have 3 SATA active) by SATA 1 & 2 it said "not detected" and by the 3rd one ( its the dvd drive) its detected and listed it right away. If BOTH Hdrives arent able ot be detected by bios then the problem might be else where am I right?

[stroyal]

Why would you look any ware else, when you have such an obvious break.

I'm not exactly sure what you are saying, but if you plugged that broken drive back into the board, you could have blown the boards controller, and then you will have a problem some ware else.

[ShyguyXPC]

well if your 2 HDD's are set up in RAID 0, and one drive is FUBAR, the whole set of data is lost.

RAID 0 writes half the data on one drive, half the data on another, if one half of the data for a program is not there, of course it won't run or load up.

as to the L shaped thing...

If its like the Red Connectors in this link on the right hand side:

Serial ATA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That is the same connector that is on the hard drive, if its busted, your pretty much SOL.


as that connection houses the SATA contacts for the cable to connect to the drive, so there's no way for it to communicate data.

Just to glue it back on, won't help, if the metal contacts are separated, then there is no way for data to "jump" the miniscule gap between the metal contacts to communicate data.

The SATA Power connector is also L Shaped, its the longer length one, if thats busted off instead, your equally SOL.

[aaro]

yes its that L shaped on on the hard drive right next to the SATA power connector in the link from Wiki.

i read somewhere that glueing the broke off piece on again helps sometime, as long as the metal contacts arent damaged in anyway, so I tried this idea and it was fail.
So now I know that im gonna have to buy a new Hdrive and redo everything again,, dang!

thanks for the help guys

[electric]

buy a Sata cable with the clips on them ,may just work for you.
not that expensive,couple of bucks

as long as the contacts make a good connection you should be find



Newegg.ca - Computer Cables

[Taxmancometh]

sata cable | eBay

[aaro]

its the recieving end of the SATA thats broke off ( the hard drive end not the cable itself)

[electric]

yes,i realize that. the only reason for the L shape is to make the connection
between the cable connection and the HD connection idiot proof.

cheers

[SaltyOldDog]

yes its the little plastic piece that looks like a "L". its right next to the metal contacts on the harddrive, it holds the cable in place so it doesnt fall off the HDrive. Other drives might have something different, not sure.

I ws able to "sort of " glue the plastic back onto the drive but it still is beeping and no program is able to start., also when running up Bios, it listed all SATA on PC ( i have 3 SATA active) by SATA 1 & 2 it said "not detected" and by the 3rd one ( its the dvd drive) its detected and listed it right away. If BOTH Hdrives arent able ot be detected by bios then the problem might be else where am I right?

Just had the same problem. I'm not sure there's a sensible way of making the connection work permanently - other than messing around with a soldering iron. However, I found a brilliant way of recovering the data using a USB 2.0 to SATA (& IDE) device. The SATA data & Power connectors on the device are in a single block, so the power connector keeps the data one in place despite the missing bit of plastic. Not sure where you are but here's a link to an outfit selling the kit with a full description and pictures:-
USB to IDE & SATA Cable Kit USBNow.co.uk

Good luck!

[ShyguyXPC]

if that works with the SATA to USB adapter kit, then maybe this SATA Cable could do the same thing, while maintaining SATA Speeds and not have to deal with lower USB 2.0 speeds.


Would make data transfer much faster to get it off the drive.

4 Pin and SATA Data to Combined SATA 22 Pin Power / Data Cable (SATA15PWD-75) - FrozenCPU.com

[SaltyOldDog]

if that works with the SATA to USB adapter kit, then maybe this SATA Cable could do the same thing, while maintaining SATA Speeds and not have to deal with lower USB 2.0 speeds.


Would make data transfer much faster to get it off the drive.

4 Pin and SATA Data to Combined SATA 22 Pin Power / Data Cable (SATA15PWD-75) - FrozenCPU.com

Could well do: The important bit is that the SATA power & data connectors are in a single block which means that the undamaged power connector supports the data connector and prevents it from falling out. You can then use some cloning software to replicate the damaged drive. Much less hassle than messing around with soldering irons and far cheaper than using data recovery services. You should even be able to get your RAID array to work again. At the end of the day, it's your data that's important, not the cost of a few bits of kit.

There are two sorts of computer users: Those who take regular backups and those who don't. After their first disc failure, users of the second group rapidly join the first... :-)