Hi Mark, Regarding the plug you detached from the hard drive while drive was still inside enclosure...
Was it a plug that felt like a half inch wide USB plug with a flat cable about 1/4 of an inch wide? If so that's a sata cable which means you have a sata i or sata II hard drive in there. If it was a wide 25? pin connector attached to the hard drive, then it is likely you have an older IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive in there. There are USB to ATA/Sata/SATA II adaptors for sale at Amazon and such. These adaptors are meant to be used as a type of bridge from the external hard drive, connected via this cable, and attached to your computer via USB slot on your desktop. They work really nicely, but this is probably not a good solution if your goal is to use the hard drive for backup and storage. I use this type of setup when plugging in hard drives to determine if they are still alive or not. If they are, I use them as a type of safe for my files. I copy my files to the drives then encrypt the drives. I detach then store for next use. LS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] How to fix broken USB plug onexternal hard drive Hi John, and Jacob, Well, I just completed dissecting the hard drive before reading Johns E-Mail. John, you are right in that the Minnie USB plug was surface soldered to the small bred board in the hard drive case. It would take someone with good eye sight, a steady soldering hand, and a lot of time to fix it. However, I was very grateful for Jacobs idea of putting it in a new case. This give me hope. I was able to unplug the controller FROM THE HARD DRIVE AND FIND IT LOOKS LIKE SOME TYPE OF STANDARD hard drive data plug. However, I do not know what type of data plug it is. I will need to sort that out in order to find a compatible drive box. I also need to get it measured to see what with box to be looking for. If anyone has ideas on these topics or a good place to buy the box I would appreciate them. Thank you. God bless, Mark God Loves you! You can visit my website at: http://christiantraditions.info Please visit my blog at: http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com My Authors Page is: httP://www.amazon.com/author/marktorgerson -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Justice Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] How to fix broken USB plug on external hard drive Jacob, As I read Mark's problem, I believe that the tension clips have snapped. These are small plates which fit tightly against the smaller type of USB jack and keep it from moving. If one of them snaps, that particular connector is useless. John and Linda Justice With guide dogs Jake and Zachary PERSONAL E-MAIL: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 4:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] How to fix broken USB plug on external hard drive Worst comes to the worst, you can generally transfer/move the actual drive over/into another new, healthy housing, or possibly, simply replace the cable for that housing as such - for example, my two separate external USB cabled hard drives are in two rather different housings, since the one is a larger, physical dimension drive, but, smaller in terms of capacity, and they're both actually the same internal hardware as you would normally find with a normally mounted, internal hard drive, but just mounted in these externally housings that then let you connect them via USB cables, and provide power sources for them, etc. etc. Either way, first thing to do would be to see if just cable can be replaced, and lots of these external drive housings use various standard connector cables of shared varieties as well. Stay well Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:45 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] How to fix broken USB plug on external hard drive > Hi > Today I tried to plug in my USB 500 GB external hard drive. I noticed > it didn't come up as a drive under the list of drives under windows 7. So, > I > started trouble shooting it. I notice that the USB Minnie jack on the > drive > was a little loose. As I was examining it I heard a snap and it became > very > loose. Apparently this is the problem with why the drive is not working. I > check the cable against another device and it is good. My question is how > do > I get this jack fixed? I have a lot of personal data that I need to access > on this drive. Any ideas are appreciated. > Thank you. > > God bless, > Mark > > God Loves you! > You can visit my website at: > http://christiantraditions.info <http://christiantraditions.info/> > Please visit my Prayer page at: > http://christiantraditions.info/mailman/listinfo/prayerlist_christiantraditi > ons.info > My Authors Page is: > httP://www.amazon.com/author/marktorgerson > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
