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Call me MacGyver

cookinwithgas

By cookinwithgas,
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Tonight I finally got my PC working, for some reason I have not figured out both the power supply AND the power switch had to be replaced. Luckily my fiancee had a old unused computer that had the parts I needed.

But I managed to break the SATA connector on my main hard drive that had Win7 on it. The plastic from the drive itself was broken off in the SATA connector. It looked terrible.

I managed to pry out the plastic from the cable, flatten out the connectors on the drive, and using my model building magnification glasses, some modeling tools, superglue and masking tape, reattached the plastic guide piece to the drive, bent the connectors just enough to stay in their tracks, and managed to get the thing working again.

SATA connectors are smaller and cheaper that IDE but they sure are not meant for the real world.

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