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i have this 80 gig drive its been wonderful it was in my file server

but i took it out and tryed to put it in this rig. mounted it in a 5.25 shot

pluged it in but i bent a pin on it

after i looked at it for a few i tryed to bend it back (like we all try to do)

i did but there was a proplem.

i can see the other end of the pin, ware it connects to the hd "mobo"

i check the web site (ibm darkstar if your wondering what kind it is) its still under

warranty (at least that is what i read).

but the problem is that i still had stuff on it, here is what is did

look at this

i taped a pen cap to the drive so the pin will connect to the mobo

i booted and look at what happend

the next thing was tryin to find a drive here that can fit all of the programs and stuff i have on it

sorry for the blury pics yahoo resized the pics for me

me

The pics are too small to see any details. I can probably fix that drive for you if needed.

good deal, ya got it so you can transfer files. now you Really want that 250g dont ya.

Greg

Jeff,

We apologize; our warranty does not cover physical damage to a drive. Our
current warranty statement can be found using the following URL:
http://www.hgst.com/warranty/jsp/arma21h.jsp

Thank you for contacting Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

Randy F




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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
888.426.5214
support_usa@hgst.com
http://www.hgst.com

i got that from ibm if you can it be wonderful

i got the pics still if you want to see them LNK

me

Originally posted by nexus_7
good deal, ya got it so you can transfer files. now you Really want that 250g dont ya.

Greg

yes,

me

I knocked a pin off of a 10gig WD drive and managed to solder it back on. The drive has been putting along for a year now in a Slot A 750 machine.

way back when I knocked something or other of the bottom of my Fujitsu 5 giger...
I posted pics on PCA of the plastercine I used to stick the capacitor/resistor/transistor/whatever it was back on and I used the drive like that until it died a year later

and it died because it was a Fujitsu... not because of the plastercine

i finly got around to installing the 250 gig (thanx greg)

ok it happend xp pro only found 130 gigs

bios found all of it its a biostar M7VIZ running a xp 2600

questions

me

good news and bad news

good news: i was able to get new box on my new rig on line
not buy entering the ip and stuff

but using ICS (it works)

bad news: i cant d/l any updates from microsoft site including sp1 (see other post, in need of win xp SP1)

me