Is my hard drive salvageable?

[Brogni]

Way back when I was moving my parts to a new case I broke off my hard drive sata connector's plastic part from pulling the cable too hard. I made due by using duct tape and rubber bands to hold the sata cable in place since it is very loose.

Fast forward and now the cable came loose for the 3rd time or so and this time I thought of using Krazy Glue to stick the cable onto my drive. The glue did its job and held the cable in place but the computer won't boot now. The sata power cable makes noise when I connect it to the drive but otherwise nothing. Did the glue damage anything or did the pins on the drive just give out after so much abuse? I pulled the cable off and tried again holding the cable in with my hand but still no luck.

Any way to salvage the drive or get ahold of the data inside of it? Thanks

 

[sizzling]

My guess from "data power cable makes noise" is you shorted out the power pins with glue. This would mean the drive is dead, you would have to send it off to a professional service for recovering data (it wouldn't be easy) and that would be expensive.

 

[n0ns3ns3]

you could have ruined the HDD with the gluing.
The only way to save it or the data is to use the controller board and connectors from exactly the same model. but even then, it might not work.
I'd not recommend to connect it to a motherboard as is as it can be ruined as well.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Crazy glue for crazy people - lol

The drive is useless except for professional data recovery - - then the scrap bin.

 

[darkpoizon]

you could have ruined the HDD with the gluing.
The only way to save it or the data is to use the controller board and connectors from exactly the same model. but even then, it might not work.
I'd not recommend to connect it to a motherboard as is as it can be ruined as well.

Same here.Take the data and buy a new HDD.That way you will not tire yourself too much and you will not ever again face the problem.

 

[darkpoizon]

My guess from "data power cable makes noise" is you shorted out the power pins with glue. This would mean the drive is dead, you would have to send it off to a professional service for recovering data (it wouldn't be easy) and that would be expensive.

True.