Hi. I broke the sata plastic tab away from the stata metal prongs on a ST3250823AS. I was able to take the broken plastic part and put it back against the prongs on the hard drive, and reset the SATA cable. Windows booted back up and everything is looking okay. This happened because my case is pretty tight (P180) down in the hard drive bay, I should be using a right angle sata cable really. Anyways, it seems to be working okay again. How can I test if it is truly working again. How can I test througput? I'm downloading SeaTools now for a run.
What would you do? Do they sell replacement controller boards or connectors? Should I glue it back? How can I test to see if my fix is actually stable for the time being? I don't want to throw this hard drive away.
Thanks.