Re: DEAD MAXTOR! HELP!

doriricci@xxxxxxxxx wrote

Two year old son played hopscotch with brand new Maxtor 3200 200
GB external HD, recently loaded with all files and backups from my hp
pavilion zd8000 laptop, including precious pictures and movies.

Time for a retrospective abortion |-)

Laptop recently formatted and OS reinstalled, due to numerous
irreparable conflicts from my 8 year old downloading video trials!

Time the plug was pulled on him too.

I guess I should have backed up my back up.

Yeah, you could say that, specially with such feral kids rampaging around.

When it fell off the table, it fell onto the usb connector,
which is now 1/4 inch recessed (crammed) into the body
of Drive. I know this, as I bought 2 external Maxtors -
one for each laptop, and the other is seated higher.

Besides selling my children to gypsies to pay for tech repair,

Better to flog them to those pathetic wretches that
have to adopt kids from South America or SE Asia now.

is there anything I can to to make Drive operable again?

It shouldnt be too hard to fix the USB connector
if you can work out how to get inside the housing.
Getting insideisnt trivial with some housings tho.

Or if not, is it possible to recover my backups?

Really depends on how badly the drives got damaged.

Case does not appear to want to open easily.

The smelly fella can likely tell you how to get inside.

Needy nose pliers do not appear to want to pull
up recessed center plastic post of usb female.

Is it just the center plastic post thats moved back ?
You may need to have a whole new socket soldered
on. That isnt necesarily going to cost much.

I do not appear to have the intelligence to hack it, even though I
recently repaired a faulty switch on my Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer that I
was told needed replacement by an ahem, "certified technician", ...and
freed up a frozen coffee grinder slated for the dump by my husband.
I brag not that I was able to repair them on my own and saved
some bucks, but that I managed not to electrocute myself on
either uneducated fact finding mission.

It isnt that hard to replace the USB connector if you can solder.

I appreciate any relevant feedback about
repairing USB port on my recalictrant drive.

Its a bit hard to visualise what its like now. Hard to see how you
could have just rammed the center plastic post of the usb female
back into the connector by it falling on that, more likely its driven
the entire connector back into the housing. Can you post a pic easily ?


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