Hi. I have a customer that brought a DVR PC from me. He was working on it himself (lesson learned) and broke not one, but two hard drive SATA connectors. One is a Seagate 7200.12 1TB drive (ST31000528AS). The other is Barracuda LP 2TB (ST32000542AS).

The hard drives contain movies that he'd like to preserve, if possible.

Any chance someone here can (for a fee) solder new connectors onto these two drives?

I'm in Wisconsin (U.S.).

SATA data connectors or power?

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Data.

Bump.

No PM's, no posts, I guess I'll give it another day or two and then tell this guy that if his data is important, he may want to send the drives off somewhere. Maybe he could get a break if they know the only problem is the connectors (LOL, right).

Buy two connectors and take them to your local TV repair shop. You don't need to remove the original connector -- just solder the new one to the existing pins on the PCB using individual wires.

Otherwise, purchase two PCBs and transfer the serial flash memory chips to the replacement PCBs. That should cost you a maximum of $50 per board. In fact some PCB suppliers include a "ROM" transfer service for US$10.

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