Hard drive is kill

install gentoo

>ex's kids
>not a single backup

learn how to backup you stuff next time e.g. in a secound drive or a cloud service

i think your only choice is a professional repair service

>>59878799
My best guess would be soldering in new connector, but I have no idea if it's even possible. You are probably fucked.

>>59878799
All I can suggest is rigging up some sort of direct connection mate. Just so long as nothing else is damaged. Like the disk. Since that hols the data really. From now on though use enclosures, and/or locks depending on whether the drive is being used internally or externally.

>>59878868
>i think your only choice is a professional repair service
/thread

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>my wife's son destroyed my life's work

Straighten that shit out and pray. I pulled all the data off a drive with the plastic bits of the SATA connection broke off entirely, had to solder that shit to a cable.

>>59878868
>i think your only choice is a professional repair service
This OP, you either need a very delicate soldering job which you can't do, or replacing the whole electronics board from another identical drive which you also can't do or you wouldn't be asking here.

Expect to pay up a good few hundred USD for the job, but on the flip side, your data is almost 100% safe inside unless your wife's son fucked with it while it was runniong.

>>59878899
To expand on this, if you can get the pins lined up, you might be able to ease a standard cable in there and prop the drive up in such a way that you can grab the data.

>>59878799
bend them back

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>>59878799
>My wife's son just destroyed my life

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>>>/OP/

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PCB look damaged so unless you know how to solder to test if the drive is working, chances are the drive have inside damage too.
Also, learn to make backups

>>59878799
buy an identical HD and replace the PCB

>>59878799
You can send it to me, i fix hard drives. It is easy to fix.

/g/ if this happened to you, how would you go about fixing this?


Personally I think i'd try my hand at soldering the wire connections directly to a sata cable/power cable and hope that worked.

Though thinking about it I'm sure that part is on digikey/china somewhere and could be independent of the PCB...

>>59879179
By having a backup.

>>59878799
Cuck

>>59879179
I suppose you could look into a way to swap the board and connector with another 2.5 inch drive as their the only bits damaged. No idea if you need the same spec/manufacturer etc.

>>59879179
>>59879234
*they're

>>59879128
This.

>>59879234
>No idea if you need the same spec
Absolutely yes.

>ex's kids
So your wife's sons?

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>>59878799
>my whole life is on it
>its a laptop hard drive

>>59879128
Oh fags. It's really really wrong to do this thoughtlessly, HD uses combination of ROM on board and adjustable bits on a plates (adaptives), mismatched board can ruin the data beyond repair (or it may work flawlessly, but fuck these experiments with valubale data)

>>59878799
Don't be a shite, straighten pins yourself, looks nothing serious

>>59879368
They just need to use the same firmware version sherlock

>>59879402
There can be dozens of firmwares for a single HD model fag

>>59879429
Exactly, that's why I'm telling OP to just use a pcb with the same firmware as his old one

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>>59879429
I guess he should just transplant the plates to an entirely new enclosure. Make sure you do it yourself OP, the repair places are a total scam.

>>59878799
>wife's son

>ex
>my

>>59879489
>what is G-list
>what is P-list
>what is adaptives
>what is selfscan

>>59879515
All of these attributes are stored on the plates too, and if you're just reading data, not writting neither trying to use that drive, it will sufice.

>>59879499
You attend service when you need to change you windshield wipers or what?

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>>59878799
Professional recovery services are expensive but they'll be able to clone your data to a new drive or replace some of the internal components. It's really your only option.

>>59879551
I was joking mostly, but replacing the plates are way too much hassle for most people as any dust or debris that gets on the plate during the transplant could fuck up disastrously.

Two possibilities:

Solder individual connections to a new SATA connector. The pins look fine so there's no reason this wouldn't work.
or
Just try to bend the pins back into position.

I've had a drive similarly fucked up and a little bit of superglue and a SATA cable was all I needed to make it usable again

>>59879276
>>59879128
>Replace the part of the hard drive the keeps track of all the sectors

>>59879545
Look, when HD initialize with wrong firmware it may start count good sectors as bad (i'm oversimplifying it, google up) because intra-ROM mappings for servo in alien firmware may differ (or not), thus filling G-list and making first sectors with MBR\GPT unaccessible. If you read on the user side it doesn't mean that intensines of HD will only read as well.
>>59879611
sry, too dumb. You right about platters, but one of my comrades had an written-off Maxtor Diamondmax which he opened up and used for fun on his desk for a week, and the bitch worked

>>59879685
>Look, when HD initialize with wrong firmware
That's why you use the same firmware version, for the damn 3rd time, are you this dense?

>>59879739
Nah, just fucking look up what adaptives means.
I'll wait.

>>59879768
You just stop being a fucking faggot who can't accept that using a different pcb from the same model and firmware version could save his data, it has worked plenty of times for most people.
How about you look up what being an asshole means.
I'll wait.

>>59879739
How does one get the right firmware version? that's not a feature they list on the box...

>>59879768
I would suspect that the info you're looking for be stored on the drive platter itself, and not on some non-volatile chip on the pcb... but maybe that is being a bit too clever...

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>>59879552
This.

This is your only real, reliable option.

You could try to find a harddrive of similar make, model, and batch and try swapping the parts out. The chance of success is still pretty low at best.

>>59879814
Stop being a shitstain.
>plenty of times
>most people
It's not an axiom, and you said it yourself. You can destroy data as well.
>>59879739
>>59879768
Adaptive tip: it's a manufacturer written firmware parameters unique for any single HD, like magnetic head write voltage, params regarding thermal expansion. It may be kept on platters, in a flash chip on board, it depends on a disk.

>>59879864
>*It may be kept on platters, in a flash chip on board or both, it depends on a disk.

if it's so important just ask a fucking pro and stop taking advice from /g/

then think about how you got to this level of retardedness and google "how to make backups"

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>>59879839
You can ask the seller or just see the image of the product

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>>59878799
Tell the FBI there is CP on the drive. The FBI will repair the HDD for free.

>>59878869
Pretty sure you can, it's nothing special.

>>59878892
kek

>>59879402
>>59879429
Last I checked even if it's an identical pcb with identical firmware it may not be guaranteed to work. Every drive has a unique combination of pcb-calibration-data with the plates themselves.

>>59880052
Yeah but its worth a try

>>59878799
>the data on this disk is SO important that I haven't made a single backup ever
100% your fault, kys.

Saying that you should use a pro makes me a little sick to my stomach.

I literally threw up a little in my mouth.

>>59878799
Solder wires to their respective places on the PCB. Done. You're probably going to want to use a professional service. Or at the very least an electronics technician. Should be kids play for them.

>>59880077
>being this retarded

>>59880076
this desu

give it loui's mongrel employee. he good at that shit.

>>59878799
how much money are you willing to spend

>>59878799
J U S T
U
S
T

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>>59879128
If you did this, but formatted the replacement HDD to the same filesystem before the PCB swap would data recovery be possible? I'm out of the loop but I don't think any data relative to the contents of the HDD are on the PCB; just the structure of the partitions.

>>59878799
I came here to laugh at you.

I would kill all of them, T B H. But anyways don't mess with it and take it to a professional. Be ready to pay a few hundred. But it's probably worth it if you have important data.
Also keep backups, don't be a fool.

>>59880452
This desu. Murder-suicide time

>>59879368
>Don't be a shite, straighten pins yourself, looks nothing serious

This

>>59878799
Buy a **IDENTICAL** model and exchange controller/plates.
Controller is much easier, for exchanging plates you will need a sealed environment.

Buy and use SpinRite.

>>59879368
>>59880476
Look at the picture again. There are one or two missing pins, nothing he can do really. Needs to be taken to a professional.

>>59880581
Ground pin on data conn missing (there are 2 of them left) and +12 and ground on power con (there are also 2 of them left respectively, and they are parallel)
RTFM

>>59880581
Can't he just unscrew the pcb, flip it over and solder some cables directly to the tracks that join the plastic connector?

>>59880698
>tracks
Meant pads

>>59880698
Anything is possible really.

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>>59880452
>it took 64 replies to suggest violence

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>>59880759

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>>59880734
Dude.. that's deep.

Anyway I took apart an old drive lying around and yes, it should be an easy job if you're not a fucking retard. Still OP should let someone else do the job

>>59880808
Yea it's not worth risking the loss of his data. I would pay the amount probably. Honestly it shouldn't be that much since the job *can* be simple.

>>59879128
You cannot because OPAL.

Even if no passphrase set, data is always encrypted with device specific key.

>>59878799
>he fell for the wife's son meme

>>59878799
>missing pins
Sorry anon.. you have a high chance not recovering that hard drive. Next time, find a chassis with a lock on it and backup your shit.

>>59881296
I think you're missing a pin or two

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>>59878799
If you've got money, you can almost certainly pay someone to recover your data, assuming the kids didn't smack it around while it was running, and assuming they didn't actually open the casing.

Drivesavers is the one data recovery place I know of off the top of my head. I think Seagate owns them. Expect to pay $800 or more.

>>59879100
What the fuck did you do for that to happen.

>>59878799
Op I do data recovery services on the side, 9 out of 10 drives I can recover for $100 or less. Yours looks like an easy fix as long as you don't plug it in and short it out.

Email me and I can help you out
4chandata @ gmail

>>59878799

Send it to the guy that repairs HDDs for $300

>>59884026

Not OP, but have you recovered encrypted WD MyBook HDDs? They have some kind of encryption chip on the USB board that fails a lot.

>>59884047
I have been successful with a few of them yes.

>>59884094

Nice, I'll keep you in mind if I can't do the repair myself.

>>59878799
> kids fucked up my hard drive pins
of all the shit around your house to fuck up. next time leave some floppy disks around, that'll keep em entertained

>>59884105
alright, thanks.

If you are going to do it by yourself though I would at least practice with another drive if you have any spares. The general rule of thumb is that if the data is worth more than the recovery you should send it in.

>>59879100
> unless you know how to solder

Then picture of horrible looking soldering job

>>59881157
What ? Really ?

Since when ? We were doing this routinely in early 2000.

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>>59878799

suggest that you use testdisk if data is corrupted

>>59878799
take a SATA cable and power connector. cut one end off and splice out the individual wires. use a multimeter to determine which pin is which and solder each wire directly to what's left of the connector pads on the hard drive.

>>59884782
SED wasn't a thing in 2000.

>>59878892
lel

>>59878799
Replace pcb with the most similar model you can find on ebay, (check for model numbers on the pcb itself) the seller will often circle the bios rom chip in the images if one needs to be swapped. Otherwise check for a rom chip yourself. I usually try it without replacing anything first as sometimes it just works. (This won't touch your data) If not use a hot air rework station to replace this chip on the new board with the one from your drive.

Or take it to a repair shop. I work at one and this is exactly what we do.

>>59878868
this OP, don't risk it.

>>59878799
>kids
>computer outside safe

>>59879337
Some people just never learn. A few years ago a girl sitting next to me in college burst into tears mid-lecture after she got a call back from a computer technician about her dead hard drive. He quoted her over $1k to make an ATTEMPT at getting the data back, with no guarantee it'd be successful. Come to find out she had her only copy of her thesis on that laptop, which was due in a few weeks. I'm curious to know her plan if her laptop got lost or stolen, or destroyed in a fire... then there'd be zero chance at recovery.

Are they fucking retards?

What kind of kid just breaks shit for no reason?

Take it to a professional. This is not something you should fix yourself. Also, you should be old enough to know that you never have important information on just ONE storage medium. Have physical backups on other hard drives and even cloud backups if you can. The more the better but obviously don't make 38 backups.

>>59879088

>efg

Wow, its been a while.

>>59878799
Ugh, you remind me of my idiot relatives.
Me : C O P Y E V E R Y T H I N G
Them: (3 months later), my hard drive is making a grinding noise and nothing responds. All my of my stuff is on there.
"Did you back anything up? Anything?"
. .
O

>>59878799
Have the controller board replaced by I won't say professionals, but at least experienced people.

http://www.hdd-parts.com/

>>59879402
No dumbshit. Usually every drive has to be calibrated for the minute manufacturing differences of heads, platter coverage, servos, and motors. That is bound to the ROM.

You MUST swap the ROM.

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>>59878892
>>59879059

>>59878799
RAID + Backups.

>>59888157
Useless because of SED.

All disks are encrypted. Different controller, different key.

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>ex's kids
>my whole life is on it

Reevaluate your choices.

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>>59878799
There's only one way to fix this. Go on ebay and buy the EXACT SAME MODEL of that HDD. doesn't matter if it's used or not.

then just unscrew the electronics board and connect the one from the donor HDD.

I've replaced "dead" HDDs this way many times. in your case, the damage isn't with platters so it's even easier.