Broken Sata Pin/ Slave not recognized

Oh kay... lol... here is a little history that will help.. maybe in trouble shooting... My original hard drive was corrputed about 3 months ago by the nasty Viriut virus... it corrupted my boot sector..

I took it in to get fixed.. he said he could not fix it with out buying a new drive..... So I bought a new one.. ( i was not willing to pay his outrageous prices for a dinky drive )...... he returned it to me "unable to remove virus".... He said he removed the corrupted files.. and partitioned the rest of the info.....

I need to get some info off of it.. and rescan it to be sure...So i'm trying to hook it up as a slave drive to my new drive... while doing so... I bent/broke off.. one of the pins to Sata1... So now my main drives is in the Sata2 port and loads just fine.. but no other drive is now recognizable...

So I dont know if i'm not seeing the drive in Bios cause of the pin.. or casue a setting is wrong .... ( the connectors are connected firmly with a pin missing )....

Is there anything else i can try that will help get this drive recognized?

TIA


Rhonda

 

hummmm....... sounds like you have a problem here....lol.... i would beleve that the reason your not seeing it listed in your bios is b/c of the broke pin. if you hook it up in the other sata slot will it be rcognized in the bios then and is it possible to boot into windows off your damaged drive???
IF you can i would leave the new one off and run the bad one,and get me a usb flash drive for around 15.00 and transfer what u want off of the drive onto the flash drive then put the new drive back in and put the files u wanted on the new drive i have a 4gig flash drive i got at wallmart for like 14.97. hope this helps keep me posted.:major

 

Thank you so much for replying so quickly!!!... unfortunally i can't boot from the bad drive i'm assuming most of the windows files are missing.. so when it tries to boot. just says bad disk.... Is there a way of going around the pin.... what genius just stuck flimsy pins straight up in the air anyway... lol they are so easy to bend.. i had a hard time getting that sata cable back on..

Is there a go around?

 

your welcom ....... ummm i dont think their is a way around this....sorry but i totaly agree with u on the "who put them their like that" thing u said.that is one of the stupidest things i have seen. but if i here any thing on this i will post back.good luck
:major

 

There may be a work around if your willing to try. find an old connector that has the same type of pins, try and get one of those pins out that is just a bit longer than the broken pin and others on the broken pin connection. insert this pin into the sata cable at the place the broken pin would have been. Hopefully it will be just that little bit longer, so when you push in the connector to the broken pin connector place this lone pin will make contact and let you get on the old drive long enough to recover to a flash drive. I don't recommend this, it may not work the pin could short out something either your hard drive or your mobo, but if your really desperate and have an older computer it is one chance that you might recover info. Best solution...Or if your really skilful with soldering iron desolder the whole connector from mobo and replace with a new one, they can be found at most electronic hobby stores.

 

I'm struggling to work out what is happening here!

Is the broken pin on the motherboard connector or the hard drive connector ?

If it is the motherboard connector the solution is clear. Connect the drive to another PC as a slave and remove important files to either the other PC or a pen drive as a precaution.
You should be able to use the secondary sata connector on the motherboard assuming there is one ?
You could get someone to solder a replacement connector onto the motherboard as already suggested. Any competant Radio Tv repair man could do it.
If however the broken pin is on the drive then it would depend on which pin it is that is broken.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
Sounds like your drive is being recognised so perhaps it is just a question of corrupted boot files ? If the tech repartitioned your old drive and did not re-install windows on an active partition you won't be able to boot from the drive. Have you tried connecting the drive as a slave on another pc ? or booting from a Windows CD ?