Hard Drive Power Supply

My friend's computer is incapacitated, he was fidling with his harddrive, apparently trying to install a second one, and somehow broke the power supply port on the back of his hardrive. He said he wiggled it and one rod had broken off, but the other 3 are still attached. Is there any solution to this, or is the hard drive screwed?

Well, if he broke the actual PCB/circuit board, I'd say yes you're screwed unless you can somehow re-attach it. If it was jsut the 4-pin molex connector that broke you can jsut use another one.

Try not to "wiggle" the molex out, you want to directly pull it out one way. Wiggling puts stress on the HDD attachment (the part he broke lol) and you don't want that.

So do you think it can be replaced?

The part he broke was the part on the hardrive, the "male" power connector.

I don't think so. I mean maybe you can find a new connector from another old harddrive, but how are you going to get it to go back on? Soldering, but I don't like the idea of taking tools to my HDD.



You'd have to refit the connector, and resolder it to the circuit board.

Well, is it possible that if he gets someone who is not a fool, and actually works on repairing delicate technology, that they would be able to do it?

Possibly, I'm sure anyone who is skilled with a soldering iron and small electronics could re-fit it. But it's not something that is a 100% guaranteed fix. Your harddrive is delicate, soldering on it could short it out.

Alright, thanks, I appreciate your time and help.

I personally know that I could solder it back on. I have been soldering on small electronics such as that for a long time. if you don't have it plugged in, and you don't touch two different things together, it isn't really that hard.