SATA Broken on SSD

[Teo295]

Greetings. I got the Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD, almost 5 years ago and never had any issues with it until yesterday, when I was doing the "spring cleaning" of my PC, disconnected the SSD to wipe the dust off of it and a small piece of plastic dropped upon removing the SATA cable. Tried reconnecting it many times, but the PC doesn't see it anymore and so I can't boot the PC. Is there any way to connect it to the PC other than through that SATA port? Any ideas what I can do except buying a new one and having to reinstall Windows?

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[alceryes]

Are you looking to get limited use to get info off or to 'fix' it? You DO have a good backup, right?
You won't be able to fix it but the pins look straight so you could try using a thin (non-conductive) spacer in the connector on the cable and carefully insert the pins. All the pins need to make continual good contact, which will be difficult if not impossible.

 

[Teo295]

Are you looking to get limited use to get info off or to 'fix' it? You DO have a good backup, right?
You won't be able to fix it but the pins look straight so you could try using a thin (non-conductive) spacer in the connector on the cable and carefully insert the pins. All the pins need to make continual good contact, which will be difficult if not impossible.

Almost all my information is stored on the 1TB HDD, but I'd like to at least get some access to what data can still be salvaged from this SSD. How would I be able to get limited use out of it? (by using the thin spacer?)

 

[USAFRet]

If it were me:
I'd solder on some thin wires, and sacrifice a SATA cable to solder the other end to.
Assuming that works, then power up and take an image of that drive to put on a new drive.

Actually...if it were me:
I'd just put in a new drive and use the backup image that was created last night.

 

[Teo295]

If it were me:
I'd solder on some thin wires, and sacrifice a SATA cable to solder the other end to.
Assuming that works, then power up and take an image of that drive to put on a new drive.

Actually...if it were me:
I'd just put in a new drive and use the backup image that was created last night.

The part after "Actually...if it were me" sounds pretty good, what would I need to take a backup image of the SSD? Also, what do you mean by last night, would I somehow already have an image of it stored on my HDD?

 

[alceryes]

Hehehe, @USAFRet is just saying that he backs up nightly so he wouldn't have lost anything.

If you are good with a soldering iron, that's a good suggestion. Better chance of getting that to work than getting all the pins to stay connected with a spacer.

 

[USAFRet]

If it were me:
I'd solder on some thin wires, and sacrifice a SATA cable to solder the other end to.
Assuming that works, then power up and take an image of that drive to put on a new drive.

Actually...if it were me:
I'd just put in a new drive and use the backup image that was created last night.

The part after "Actually...if it were me" sounds pretty good, what would I need to take a backup image of the SSD? Also, what do you mean by last night, would I somehow already have an image of it stored on my HDD?

That 'actually...' requires that backups are created before bad things happen, not after.
My system is backed up every night, unattended on a schedule.
And then weekly, off to a whole other drive.

If my C drive were to die right now, I could recover from last nights backup.

A dead drive should never be more than "aw crap, I have to buy another drive"
Data should never be compromised.

 

[Teo295]

Hehehe, @USAFRet is just saying that he backs up nightly so he wouldn't have lost anything.

If you are good with a soldering iron, that's a good suggestion. Better chance of getting that to work than getting all the pins to stay connected with a spacer.

If it were me:
I'd solder on some thin wires, and sacrifice a SATA cable to solder the other end to.
Assuming that works, then power up and take an image of that drive to put on a new drive.

Actually...if it were me:
I'd just put in a new drive and use the backup image that was created last night.

The part after "Actually...if it were me" sounds pretty good, what would I need to take a backup image of the SSD? Also, what do you mean by last night, would I somehow already have an image of it stored on my HDD?

That 'actually...' requires that backups are created before bad things happen, not after.
My system is backed up every night, unattended on a schedule.
And then weekly, off to a whole other drive.

If my C drive were to die right now, I could recover from last nights backup.

A dead drive should never be more than "aw crap, I have to buy another drive"
Data should never be compromised.

Well guess I now learned my lesson, thank you all for your time, gonna try soldering and if that doesn't work, just gonna get a new one and always backup from now on (good I lost just the OS, have 90% of my data safe on the HDD).