Question for hardware experts

[macabeee]

I have a quesion that seems to ellude even the "best" tech service department in town....

My brother-in-law's laptop started acting up last week. I decided to pull his hard drive to hook up to my laptop to try and diagnose the issue and found the problem it in a big way.

As soon as I pulled the adapter that plugs into the pins on the HD it broke into 2 pieces. [img]confused.gif[/img] 6 of the pins remained stuck in the adapter and the other 38 were where they should be, attached to the circuit card of the hard drive.

I NEED TO GET THE DATA THAT'S ON THE HARD DRIVE OFF OF IT!

I've already attempted swapping the circuit card from another 2.5" hard drive that has the same make and model number as my brother-in-law's HD, but my computer would not recognize it either as an internal or as a external USB drive.

Does anyone know if there's any chance in hell of getting the data off of this hard drive???

[thatchetguy]

You can't use needle-nosed pliers to pull the pins out, and "set" them into the OTHER adapter that you're pluggin this into... and then put everything else back together? Basically, make it like it broke off from the other adapter instead of the first one. Might be enough contact to get a reading off the data...

[macabeee]

I tried that before trying to switch out the circuit card, didn't work.

And it wasn't just the pins that came out, the plastic part that holds the pins broke and came off of the circuit card.

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ May 26, 2006 11:51 AM: Message edited by: macabeee ]</font>

[spfxwizard01]

umm...this probably only has a one in a million chance of working but build a little clean environment, dissasemble the harddrive, remove the actual disks along with the reading head and buy the same make and model hardrive and attempt to transplant the actual disks and put it back together i really can't see getting your info off of that hard drive any other way.