Does Anyone Know How to Attach My Toshiba Canvio External Hard Drive Directly to a SATA port?

[Tri2014]

Recently my Toshiba Canvio 500 gb external hard drive corrupted and could not be read by Windows, everytime i plug its USB cable into my laptop, Windows always ask "Do you want to format it?". But it always failed everytime i perform Quick Format/Format using right click, so i decided to disassemble it, and i want to attach it directly into my PC's SATA port. Unfortunately after i disassemble it there is no SATA card / SATA slot on my External Hard Drive.

Here's the internal parts of my Toshiba Canvio 500 gb:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Xj8ZTExdbY/UvrKnnQF-fI/AAAAAAAADrY/3PssHhFXOfo/s1600/P2120311.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8wVIldPc2VE/UvrLJRzhHZI/AAAAAAAADrg/qoqagpYsgIw/s1600/P2120310.JPG

What should i do? Please help...

 

[Someone Somewhere]

You shouldn't remove the PCB from an HDD without being really careful. The contacts can get skin oil on them, and corrode.

It looks like your HDD is one of the rare ones that doesn't go via SATA, but connects directly over USB.

Connecting it via SATA might not have helped, anyway.

Are you trying to get data off it, or just use it again. If you want data, trying to format it is a bad idea.

 

[Tri2014]

@Someone Somewhere: I already recover the data from it using Icare Data Recovery. Now i want to use it again

 

[Someone Somewhere]

OK.

Put the board back on, then download GParted and boot off that. Create a new partition table then create an NTFS partition.

 

[Tri2014]

OK.

Put the board back on, then download GParted and boot off that. Create a new partition table then create an NTFS partition.

Thanks for the reply. The problem is, the PCB board has been damaged when i try to remove it from the hard drive. It's impossible to put it back, because one of the tiny screw jammed so i cut the board.

I have tried the "chkdsk" command, didn't work. And then i try to create NTFS partition and format it using "diskpart" command, also failed.

At first i thought after i remove the board, it will reveal the SATA slot just like the other Toshiba external hard drive which i have seen on youtube. Apparently mine is different, now i'm regretting my decision to cut the PCB.

Is there any other way to fix my external hard drive?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

I don't think you've got much hope, but can you take a picture of where you cut it?

Formatting in another OS might work; Windows can be rather touchy at times.

 

[Tri2014]

I don't think you've got much hope, but can you take a picture of where you cut it?

Formatting in another OS might work; Windows can be rather touchy at times.

Here's the picture, the red circle is where i cut it:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jjrXAh8I3RU/UvtjE3sQ7FI/AAAAAAAADrw/wx3d-tv7VHo/s1600/P2120310+%282%29.JPG

How to format it in another OS, since the PCB has been damaged?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

You cut that much? That's not going to work.

I suggest you pull it apart just to see what's inside, because there's no way it's going to work again.

 

[Tri2014]

You cut that much? That's not going to work.

I suggest you pull it apart just to see what's inside, because there's no way it's going to work again.

Ok, so there's no other way to make it work again. I'm so confused at that time. Fortunately, all the data can be recovered. Next time i'll ask the forum first before i do anything stupid

Thanks for your time to help me out, i'm really appreciate it