Please tell me there is hope.... (HD related)

[NegatiZE]

I can't believe what I did today. I was tweaking my PC trying to figure out why my K8N Neo Platinum wouldn't overlock at all without not detecting my SATA WD Raptor drive. That's been fixed by simply moving the HD to either SATA3/4 on the motherboard. Apparantly the latter two are run off a different SATA controller.

Anywho, in the process of putting my computer back together, I put the IDE cable for my old 60GB HD in UPSIDEDOWN. For the longest time I didn't know what was wrong until I pulled the entire drive out of the computer and realized what I had done. I pushed one of the pins waay far back. I'm still kicking myself.

Please tell me there is something I can do. Anyone think a local computer shop would be able to pull it back out or at least get all the data off it?

If there's one thing I learned today besides my ignorance, it's to BACK UP YOUR FILES.

 

[kranky]

A couple ideas here.

 

[Pciber]

your using IDE cables that don't have a notch to prevent them from plugging them in backwards? throw them away, geeze.

 

[NegatiZE]

Yeah, the cable I was using didn't have a notch. They are going in the trash as soon as I get the data off this drive.

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, I have successfully pulled pins back out with long nose pliers. A touch of Super Glue from the back side will lock it in. If you get it on the pins you will have to clean it off. Once the back of the pin came away from the PC board. I had to solder a jumper to fix that one. Luck, Jim