Method is solid, but I'd recommend pretesting the new connection before gluing it down. Could do more damage if you end up having to rip it off to reset a bent pin.
I don't comment on RUclips videos usually, but want to signal boost this one. Method works wonders; it is informative and clear, and saved me buying a new hard drive. Thank you!
Thanks a lot, this saved me! I was so upset after the sata cord got ripped out of my 8tb drive taking the plastic L piece with it. This worked great and I also used hot glue like you.
Thank you for this very useful tip. My machine didn’t even power on suddenly one day and it was the PSU which got shorted out due to this problem (I found that out after I got to the bottom of it). I had to replace the PSU and then do the fix posted here on a WD 6 TB drive. I had to cannibalize the plastic bit from another old Seagate drive since that plastic bit had somehow gotten lost or fallen somewhere. Funny thing is I didn’t realize it was the problem until I put the new PSU in and the machine would boot up without this hard drive connected but completely ‘die’ with the broken hard drive connected with the naked pins to the power port in the drive (loose of course but I didn’t realize the brokenness). It was shorting out the machine itself. Somehow the new PSU didn’t die and after I fixed it I recovered all the data off the drive (again thankfully no data loss) and decided to retire the drive even though it still works with this thingy on the ports sticking out. One hoop I had to jump through was that I had to connect it to main machine because an external SATA connector could not read off the drive. Maybe because it was 6 TB and had GUID scheme. But I just left machine open connected to the old and new hard drives on the Onboard SATA and power connectors overnight, carefully condoning off the room to avoid electric accidents and after overnight data copy (using FileSync) all was well.
O wow.....this is somewhat happened to me too....my pc sometimes become laggy, i thought it's the windows update problem...now after i physically checked it, the SATA CONNECTOR on the hd just suddenly fall off after just some wiggle and the plastic part of the POWER CONNECTOR also become easily broken (like a substantial wiggle can broke them which is problematic, because u need to wiggle it to remove it)....damn WD(to be fair, it is a 8 y.o. hdd, so the plastic probably lose its integrity)....just ordered this male-to-female connector and a new hdd, it already it's time to move all the data to a new one and probably turn the older to be a redundancy drive....hope this method works and i can safely transfer all the data to the new one
Hats off to you sir - my power connector just broke off (brittle from heat??) just the way it has in your video. Your method saved my digital ass! Cloning as we speak.
For those wondering, yes you can get away from the broken part as long as all the pins are there and straight. Just be very careful putting it on and gluing it and know what you are doing.
Oh my god you are a life saver I won’t get my connector until Monday so I won’t k ow for sure but the exact thing happened to me but instead with the sata port the piece is stuck in my sata cable but will this still work without that extra little piece?
The hot glue your using is clear or white in color its a low temperature melting point, you can buy a higher temperature melting point hot glue that bonds better. I've used types that are so strong youll break any plastic before the glue pulls off. I've used lots of the black type in cars where in the summer temperature can reach 140 dgr F this tends to hold better. There are stronger versions but the hobby shop white stuff isn't very strong. Becuse hard-drive get hot the whitechot glue will get soft and easly come apart. Id use a super type of glue and activator spray to make the bond then build it us with a black hot glue thats high temperature.
great content!! good accent to listen to! think I been on your channel several time watching anything from Windows Remote Desktop to this 3,5" Sata repair. Thx man!! Good content!!
yeah, where would RUclips be without all those "A Gazillion Life Hack" videos that seem to only ever use one tool for just about everything...the hot glue gun ! I bet their houses and cars are all put together using one ...perhaps i should get one just in case ! :-)
@@bazwillrun yeah its good to have one a next good use for hot glue is the front panel of a PC case them little clips can break off just use a little hot glue and glue it back on problem fix
What if you don’t have the flimsy seagate plastic that came off to begin with. Because I tried to rig it together with a few risky options and ended up melting some plastic luckily* (I think) I didn’t short it beyond repair.
Great post , Brian . Thanks . Happened twice to two rich clients of mine . I simply got them to buy identical HDDs and then ... wait for it ... opened up the drives for "transplants" :)
Hard drives are mechanical and moving parts are going to wear, there is no cheating the laws of physics, all HDD's and SSD's are going to fail at some point. For any data I need to keep I make multiple backups on other drives in the cloud and at another location.
If even one of the pins are broken or damaged, would this fix still apply or how can I get that fixed with a broken pin or get the information off of the drive?
Had a mishap with a drive over the weekend, and I've been freaking out thinking I was going to have to either spend a paycheck on data recovery or try to teach myself to solder so I could somehow connect the pins to an expendable sata extension. Going to order one of these on amazon tonight, and cross my fingers I can get this to work.
Thanks Brian :-D That looks solid as a rock, better than having to source an identical pcb socket and have fun soldering lol. A frends pc was blue screening for no apparent reason, i found touching the ssd drive made it worse, i thought ahh a bad pin joint. So i removed the ssd case, the connector just fell off the pcb like it had not been soldered. i was amazed that it managed to work with every solder joint broken. Some real solder and 5 mins of carefull soldering and it was bomb proof :-D. Beware of crappy lead free soldered sockets.
Just adding something to this....my HDD is 8 y.o. Suddenly my PC become laggy when i played games (i thought it was a software issue from Windows update)... But it keep happening and after i checked it physically, the SATA CONNECTOR just fall off suddenly after i wiggled it 2 times and if i checked the POWER CONNECTOR, the plastic part also become easily broken..like a few wiggle broke the L part of the CONNECTOR....it is probably a material integrity issue, damn WD (because it is really old though, so.. I don't know)....i lose the broken piece and will probably use a broken-in-half micro-sd as the substitute...still waiting for the 22pin connector to come and hope it will works, just like in this video
What do I do if i bent the whole thing. Like the plastic didnt come off. But i just kinda bent it. And now my pc isnt going past bios. Am I gonna lose everything?
OMG! Swapping my Media server over to a new PC, the old on was a tight space on the Drive, and the Data side of the SATA snapped off, Hope I can do this fix, or I lose 8tb !!!
I have a Toshiba internal HDD. Sata connector broke along with the #4 pin which I belive is a ground. If I still can get it connected with the missing ground pin not allow for data to be transfer to a new HDD?
Just bought a new 6tb hard drive. This had happened to me. I went ahead and followed what you did. I connected it and at first it would sometimes see the hard drive but not let me partition the drive as it was greyed out. And now it will not even see the hard drive. I don't know what is wrong.
What's broken on my pc is the small little tape like cord that connects my ssd connecter, at the very tip...not the connecting parts itself...do i have to solder it back? btw how on earth do i get my enclosure from my old hdd cause it just never came off
Great video I need that to repair, however the link is outdated. Do you have a link to that adaptor I can buy to fit on my HDD.? Thanks for all the great videos.
HI ty for the vid. The part on my hdd is the plastic peg that fits into the female on the back of the hard drive. You had the old part. How do you do it with out that? Can I not change the whole back of my HDD with one from another HDD? Thanks. Yeah I know this is old but any help is appreciated
trim it in place with a small amount of duck tape instead of heat glue
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are you sure that usb connector is gonna work without extra power for that 3.5 inch? also that's more like a patch, rather than a fix. but still, a useful video.
Why the hdd have trhe male connection and not the sata ill never know. I understand for the power but there are ways to do it where the $5 sata and 12v are still the male not the $300 drive
Hey guys, mine is broken too. And I cant find the plastic for the metal pins.. can I still use this method or is there some other way? I don't wanna spend hundreds of euros for a fix.. thanks in advance!
Hey @Britech09, i got the same HDD as u (2to though) and the pins are ripped off, some are even missing, I think there are like 3 or 4 that seems to lineup correctly (on the signal pins side, not the power). I also don't have the missing plastic piece, it's forever lost. Would this still work ?
At 7:32 you show a (USB Adapter) and state firmly that the Sata 22 Pin Male to Sata 22 Pin Female needs to be connected to another cable here without shorting, if you don't use anything like this you risk shortening the pins across. And at 7:54 you say it can be plugged straight into a computer without the additional USB adapter. This is somewhat confusing. Can I assemble the Sata 22 Pin Male to Sata 22 Pin Female adapter as shown and then plug it straight into a PC without using the USB adapter?
@ALL Anyone tried buying a USB SATA docking station and sliding it carefully in there? I stupidly lost the plastic bit that snapped off (think I vacuumed it up)
I find the coincidence to be too great that when this happened to me and I started researching ways to fix it, the first video I bring up, the guy has the exact same HDD as me, a 3TB Seagate Barracuda. Defective garbage.
ST3000DM001 is a horrible harddrive. They a prone to "click-of-death". Mine failed 3 months after the warranty exceeded (click of death, SMART data was checked and logged the month before, absolutly flawless...) See also wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 Better replace that drive!
Detmer aye. Over the course of 2 or 3 years, I think I had 5 or 6 of those Seagate 3TB drives. I had so many because I was using two at a time, and had to keep replacing them. 3 had each failed after about a year of use. After that and reading other reports of high failure rates of the model, I replaced the others before they had a chance to die. They’re total garbage.
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can u link that connectors
Thank you so much you save the day this same thing just happen to me.
Just a question, you cannot just use superglue to put the plastic piece back on the drive and be done with it instead of this fancy stuff?
Method is solid, but I'd recommend pretesting the new connection before gluing it down. Could do more damage if you end up having to rip it off to reset a bent pin.
Its a fair point.
You saved me from tossing a 2TB SSD. Thank you!
I don't comment on RUclips videos usually, but want to signal boost this one. Method works wonders; it is informative and clear, and saved me buying a new hard drive. Thank you!
This worked very well. It was the SATA connector that was broke in my case. Quick easy fix. Drive is working great. Thank you for this tutorial
I've just managed to do this trying to fit a tight short cable sata power connector on a brand new 1tb Samsung SSD 😭
Good fix. Only thing i'd say to anyone looking to do it: make sure it works before you glue. Saved me.
Geniuses mines broke the same exact way your a life saver thanks 😂😂
Thanks a lot, this saved me! I was so upset after the sata cord got ripped out of my 8tb drive taking the plastic L piece with it. This worked great and I also used hot glue like you.
I have an older ssd with a broken connector and I was wondering what to do with it. Now thanks to you I have a shot at saving it. Thanks Brian.
Yes you can fix SSD
Thank you for this very useful tip. My machine didn’t even power on suddenly one day and it was the PSU which got shorted out due to this problem (I found that out after I got to the bottom of it). I had to replace the PSU and then do the fix posted here on a WD 6 TB drive. I had to cannibalize the plastic bit from another old Seagate drive since that plastic bit had somehow gotten lost or fallen somewhere. Funny thing is I didn’t realize it was the problem until I put the new PSU in and the machine would boot up without this hard drive connected but completely ‘die’ with the broken hard drive connected with the naked pins to the power port in the drive (loose of course but I didn’t realize the brokenness). It was shorting out the machine itself. Somehow the new PSU didn’t die and after I fixed it I recovered all the data off the drive (again thankfully no data loss) and decided to retire the drive even though it still works with this thingy on the ports sticking out. One hoop I had to jump through was that I had to connect it to main machine because an external SATA connector could not read off the drive. Maybe because it was 6 TB and had GUID scheme. But I just left machine open connected to the old and new hard drives on the Onboard SATA and power connectors overnight, carefully condoning off the room to avoid electric accidents and after overnight data copy (using FileSync) all was well.
O wow.....this is somewhat happened to me too....my pc sometimes become laggy, i thought it's the windows update problem...now after i physically checked it, the SATA CONNECTOR on the hd just suddenly fall off after just some wiggle and the plastic part of the POWER CONNECTOR also become easily broken (like a substantial wiggle can broke them which is problematic, because u need to wiggle it to remove it)....damn WD(to be fair, it is a 8 y.o. hdd, so the plastic probably lose its integrity)....just ordered this male-to-female connector and a new hdd, it already it's time to move all the data to a new one and probably turn the older to be a redundancy drive....hope this method works and i can safely transfer all the data to the new one
Thanks!!! You saved my brand new WD 6TB drive!
LOVE this. Got a 1.5 T drive with photos that hasn't been backed up for several months. similar break.
Hats off to you sir - my power connector just broke off (brittle from heat??) just the way it has in your video. Your method saved my digital ass! Cloning as we speak.
Saved my 6month old 2TB hdd, thanks a lot!
For those wondering, yes you can get away from the broken part as long as all the pins are there and straight. Just be very careful putting it on and gluing it and know what you are doing.
My pins broke😢
Oh my god you are a life saver I won’t get my connector until Monday so I won’t k ow for sure but the exact thing happened to me but instead with the sata port the piece is stuck in my sata cable but will this still work without that extra little piece?
I've had to find a doner drive when a drive has a broken connector.
This will be a great short cut for future mishaps.
Yeah a lot more work involved
The hot glue your using is clear or white in color its a low temperature melting point, you can buy a higher temperature melting point hot glue that bonds better.
I've used types that are so strong youll break any plastic before the glue pulls off.
I've used lots of the black type in cars where in the summer temperature can reach 140 dgr F this tends to hold better.
There are stronger versions but the hobby shop white stuff isn't very strong.
Becuse hard-drive get hot the whitechot glue will get soft and easly come apart.
Id use a super type of glue and activator spray to make the bond then build it us with a black hot glue thats high temperature.
great content!! good accent to listen to! think I been on your channel several time watching anything from Windows Remote Desktop to this 3,5" Sata repair. Thx man!! Good content!!
The connector repair is solid but the USB-SATA interface shown will not provide 12 volt power to a 3.5 inch hard drive.
I know that, just showing it plugging in to a connector.
All right.
Britec the hot glue tech lol can.t stop the good old hot glue
Got to love the hot glue gun
yeah, where would RUclips be without all those "A Gazillion Life Hack" videos that seem to only ever use one tool for just about everything...the hot glue gun ! I bet their houses and cars are all put together using one ...perhaps i should get one just in case ! :-)
@@bazwillrun yeah its good to have one
a next good use for hot glue is the front panel of a PC case them little clips can break off just use a little hot glue and glue it back on problem fix
Yeah I have broke them before.
Another extremely useful vid...who hasnt had an HDD go south at some time or other ?
Thanks
Thanks. Just ordered the part to fix one of my hard drives.
Worse case scenario use an external plug in slotted adapter. It works!
What if you don’t have the flimsy seagate plastic that came off to begin with. Because I tried to rig it together with a few risky options and ended up melting some plastic luckily* (I think) I didn’t short it beyond repair.
Great post , Brian . Thanks .
Happened twice to two rich clients of mine . I simply got them to buy identical HDDs and then ... wait for it ... opened up the drives for "transplants" :)
Yeah you can use a identical hard drive, more expensive that way.
And they'll crap out in 3 months.
@@davidprice2861 Pray tell why so . And please , refrain from using profanities . Thanks .
Hard drives are mechanical and moving parts are going to wear, there is no cheating the laws of physics, all HDD's and SSD's are going to fail at some point. For any data I need to keep I make multiple backups on other drives in the cloud and at another location.
If even one of the pins are broken or damaged, would this fix still apply or how can I get that fixed with a broken pin or get the information off of the drive?
Would verify fix before gluing.
Had a mishap with a drive over the weekend, and I've been freaking out thinking I was going to have to either spend a paycheck on data recovery or try to teach myself to solder so I could somehow connect the pins to an expendable sata extension. Going to order one of these on amazon tonight, and cross my fingers I can get this to work.
Thanks Brian :-D
That looks solid as a rock, better than having to source an identical pcb socket and have fun soldering lol.
A frends pc was blue screening for no apparent reason, i found touching the ssd drive made it worse, i thought ahh a bad pin joint.
So i removed the ssd case, the connector just fell off the pcb like it had not been soldered.
i was amazed that it managed to work with every solder joint broken.
Some real solder and 5 mins of carefull soldering and it was bomb proof :-D.
Beware of crappy lead free soldered sockets.
Yeah no need to solder these, that's just making work for yourself
My hhd's got a power surge and won't turn on anymore, would this fix that?
Just adding something to this....my HDD is 8 y.o. Suddenly my PC become laggy when i played games (i thought it was a software issue from Windows update)... But it keep happening and after i checked it physically, the SATA CONNECTOR just fall off suddenly after i wiggled it 2 times and if i checked the POWER CONNECTOR, the plastic part also become easily broken..like a few wiggle broke the L part of the CONNECTOR....it is probably a material integrity issue, damn WD (because it is really old though, so.. I don't know)....i lose the broken piece and will probably use a broken-in-half micro-sd as the substitute...still waiting for the 22pin connector to come and hope it will works, just like in this video
Very Helpful as always
Thank-you for your time and effort
Cheers Wally
What do I do if i bent the whole thing. Like the plastic didnt come off. But i just kinda bent it. And now my pc isnt going past bios. Am I gonna lose everything?
Just a question, you cannot just use superglue to put the plastic piece back on the drive and be done with it instead of this fancy stuff?
It won't be able to handle the torque that's generated due to the adapter, and would snap eventually
OMG! Swapping my Media server over to a new PC, the old on was a tight space on the Drive, and the Data side of the SATA snapped off, Hope I can do this fix, or I lose 8tb !!!
Thanks! great idea
What happens if some of the data transferring pins have broken, is that the hard drive kaput?
I have a Toshiba internal HDD. Sata connector broke along with the #4 pin which I belive is a ground. If I still can get it connected with the missing ground pin not allow for data to be transfer to a new HDD?
Very useful information Brian, well done.
Thanks Terry
What if you don’t have the broken plastic part?
Just bought a new 6tb hard drive. This had happened to me. I went ahead and followed what you did. I connected it and at first it would sometimes see the hard drive but not let me partition the drive as it was greyed out. And now it will not even see the hard drive. I don't know what is wrong.
What's broken on my pc is the small little tape like cord that connects my ssd connecter, at the very tip...not the connecting parts itself...do i have to solder it back? btw how on earth do i get my enclosure from my old hdd cause it just never came off
it's really frustrated when it happens by accidentally! thank you
Thanks
youre welcome
Great video I need that to repair, however the link is outdated. Do you have a link to that adaptor I can buy to fit on my HDD.? Thanks for all the great videos.
Great little fix!! AJ
Cheers AJ
HI ty for the vid. The part on my hdd is the plastic peg that fits into the female on the back of the hard drive. You had the old part. How do you do it with out that? Can I not change the whole back of my HDD with one from another HDD? Thanks. Yeah I know this is old but any help is appreciated
Thanks!
trim it in place with a small amount of duck tape instead of heat glue
are you sure that usb connector is gonna work without extra power for that 3.5 inch? also that's more like a patch, rather than a fix. but still, a useful video.
just curious how much a replacement board would cost for the HDD but I was thinking some HDDs has an encryption chip on it
You would have to find a identical hard drive and use the parts from that. More expensive and time consuming.
Do we have to use the same company drive ?
I broke my sata plastic part but the connectors are fine ease any help i have very important data in the drive and i just bought it a week ago
The glue is absolutelly not necessary!
And it's much better to use a 90 degree adapter
is that a strong enough fix for the hard drive to sit safely in an external dock??
Brian coming in wid those helpful vids 🔥🔥🔥⚡⚡⚡😆
Thanks
Nice Fix. Thanks for sharing
Can this be done on a laptop hard drive
what if 2 of my sata connector pins snapped off?
Why the hdd have trhe male connection and not the sata ill never know. I understand for the power but there are ways to do it where the $5 sata and 12v are still the male not the $300 drive
What’s the difference between the 90 degree adapter and the normal one ?
Normal is straight - ie 180 degrees, 90 degree is a right angle - otherwise no electrical difference
Nice job, Brian. Good info.
Thanks
Hey guys,
mine is broken too. And I cant find the plastic for the metal pins.. can I still use this method or is there some other way? I don't wanna spend hundreds of euros for a fix.. thanks in advance!
Hey @Britech09, i got the same HDD as u (2to though) and the pins are ripped off, some are even missing, I think there are like 3 or 4 that seems to lineup correctly (on the signal pins side, not the power). I also don't have the missing plastic piece, it's forever lost. Would this still work ?
thanks family for the info
You're welcome.
Thanks that was very handy to now
You're welcome.
oh my god u saved me and my $200 ssd
At 7:32 you show a (USB Adapter) and state firmly that the Sata 22 Pin Male to Sata 22 Pin Female needs to be connected to another cable here without shorting, if you don't use anything like this you risk shortening the pins across. And at 7:54 you say it can be plugged straight into a computer without the additional USB adapter. This is somewhat confusing. Can I assemble the Sata 22 Pin Male to Sata 22 Pin Female adapter as shown and then plug it straight into a PC without using the USB adapter?
Plug into sata port
i was expecting it to be held by duct tape
duct tape worked on Apollo 13
lol
Will this work on a DVD ROM Drive?
@ALL Anyone tried buying a USB SATA docking station and sliding it carefully in there? I stupidly lost the plastic bit that snapped off (think I vacuumed it up)
Is there then the possibility of shorting the drive? I’m wondering too, bc I don’t have the broken piece either!
Will this adapter work and power a ssd
You didn't show how to get the data off for those who don't know how.
Good fix Brian! Thanks for sharing the video.👍😎JP
You're welcome.
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cool man i buddy splinted mine small one to big one cuz the plastic connector busted, now i got a reason to buy a hot glue gun $$
Holy cow Brian the vocal is loud LOL Nice computer tip you won't see something like this on other youtube channels ! bye for now
Cheers John
good tip thanks
Glad you liked it.
How about those of us who couldn’t salvage any pieces?
You should put in the title *salvaged piece
One quick question on pronunciation here. Do most people in your region pronounce new as "nuu"?
Any excuse to use a glue gun is a good one 👍
lol
Would that USB power a 3.5 hard drive ?
Only if you plug it into a power outlet USB Hub, not enough power from a front panel USB port to drive that 3.5 inch Hard Drive
no it cant power it, 3.5 need 12V :)
I think we already know you can't power it that way. The connector is just showing you that it work
I find the coincidence to be too great that when this happened to me and I started researching ways to fix it, the first video I bring up, the guy has the exact same HDD as me, a 3TB Seagate Barracuda. Defective garbage.
T H A N K Y O U F O R SHARING, GREAT VID
You're welcome.
help I lost the L peice
Thanks. Baby
ST3000DM001 is a horrible harddrive. They a prone to "click-of-death". Mine failed 3 months after the warranty exceeded (click of death, SMART data was checked and logged the month before, absolutly flawless...)
See also wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001
Better replace that drive!
Detmer aye. Over the course of 2 or 3 years, I think I had 5 or 6 of those Seagate 3TB drives. I had so many because I was using two at a time, and had to keep replacing them. 3 had each failed after about a year of use. After that and reading other reports of high failure rates of the model, I replaced the others before they had a chance to die. They’re total garbage.