Broken Pins

[m2c4u]

Hi, I have a hard drive here my mate asked me to see if I could fix it. What it is, on the ide-connector (on hdd) the first 4 pins are fully snapped off, it has a lot of information on that he would like to recover.

The particular hard-drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB.
Is there any tricks to getting it working again? Is it possible to maybe solder wires in, or try and find a replacement boad. The hard drive needs to be fixed in 2 days as he is going away. So thats puts buying new parts out of the equation.

Any ideas? Thanks, Lee

[m2c4u]

Oops, posted it in the wrong forum, can someone move it please :)

[Stedeman]

You could solder the matched ATA wires from the cable just cut the right 4 wires from the cable and solder them strait to the back of the connector like little jumpers

[m2c4u]

Thanks for that but ive got it sorted. There is an even bigger problem now.

When booting into the drive I get this blue screen with this error message half way through the Windows 2000 Loading Bar.

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xEB81B84C, 0XC00000, 0X000000, 0X000000)
INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE

I have no idea what this means and how to fix it, anyone help?

Ive booted into winxp from a separate drive and ran diagnostic tests to check the drives condidtion and everything seems fine with the drive.

Why isnt it booting!!

Need your help, thanks Lee.

[Fushyuguru]

Just put stiff wires inside the female end of an ide connector, just long enough to make contact with the broken pin stubs. Even if the connector is half on, it should still work as long as all pins are making contact and the stiff pins are touching the stubs.

Not a permanent solution, but one that will work long enough.

Good luck.

[CrashOveride]

Originally posted by Fushyuguru
Just put stiff wires inside the female end of an ide connector, just long enough to make contact with the broken pin stubs. Even if the connector is half on, it should still work as long as all pins are making contact and the stiff pins are touching the stubs.

Not a permanent solution, but one that will work long enough.

Good luck.

Darn you beat me:D

[m2c4u]

Im getting closer to fixing this, can anyone with windows 2000 check if there is a boot.ini in their root directory ( generally C:). As this drive does not contain one. Ive searced for it but It cannot be located. Also could I create an emergancy repair disk somehow.

[CrashOveride]

I think when it says:

INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE

You need to make the boot device (harddrive) accessible ie. fix the pin problem. Did you do that sufficiently?

[1-Man-Army]

no u did it all right like the soldering and stuff now what u have to do is hook up the drive as a slave drive into ur comp and burn the data off for him, i still do not no why when u stick other hdds and try to boot off other comps it wont work unless u rig it up as a slave drive and boot into urs and burn the other drive out!
btw are u trying to boot this disk drive fomr ur comp? or from ur friends?

[pummer]

If you're trying to boot it off your comp, the reason it won't work is because W2K was installed with his hardware configuration, not yours. You need to burn the data off for him.

[McWarren]

What he said...

I'll clear it up for you- it sounds like his computer uses a different IDE controller to the drivers that you've got installed for yours. So all you need to do is rig that drive up as a slave and boot off of your existing drive.

[m2c4u]

nope, I managed to locate a temporary fix for the pin thing while I was round his house. When booting the drive I also received the error message on his computer and mine! Do you think using the repair thingy would work? Im going to have to hunt down a windows2000 disk now :/

[pummer]

to offer you a solution (if you have broadband and a CD-ROM drive and a separate burner) --
you can just use knoppix (http://knoppix.net) to boot from the CD-ROM drive and access the files on the HD and burn them with your burner. Knoppix is linux that boots off a CD and has a bunch of programs already installed. When I was getting boot errors, this was my solution.

[method().man]

Does this really belong in Alternative Modding? I think better luck might be had in storage or something. Anyway...

This is what the code "0x0000007B" means:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q122/9/26.ASP&NoWebContent=1


The fix appears to be a missing driver in your registry that you'll have to manually install from a computer that you can boot up. Here are some instructions from Microsoft to help you along. Good luck!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q271965

[CrashOveride]

Originally posted by method().man
Does this really belong in Alternative Modding? I think better luck might be had in storage or something. Anyway...


Originally posted by m2c4u
Oops, posted it in the wrong forum, can someone move it please :)

[weponhead]

Did you try booting your PC with it as a slave? you are being kind of vauge as to what you have tried... or if you have tried anything people have suggested :)

[1-Man-Army]

Originally posted by pummer
to offer you a solution (if you have broadband and a CD-ROM drive and a separate burner) --
you can just use knoppix (http://knoppix.net) to boot from the CD-ROM drive and access the files on the HD and burn them with your burner. Knoppix is linux that boots off a CD and has a bunch of programs already installed. When I was getting boot errors, this was my solution.

omg thanks for the link i love knoppix!!! its so cool