Worst comes to the worst, you can generally transfer/move the actual drive
over/into another new, healthy housing, or possibly, simply replace the
cable for that housing as such - for example, my two separate external USB
cabled hard drives are in two rather different housings, since the one is a
larger, physical dimension drive, but, smaller in terms of capacity, and
they're both actually the same internal hardware as you would normally find
with a normally mounted, internal hard drive, but just mounted in these
externally housings that then let you connect them via USB cables, and
provide power sources for them, etc. etc.
Either way, first thing to do would be to see if just cable can be replaced,
and lots of these external drive housings use various standard connector
cables of shared varieties as well.
Stay well
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <m...@christiantraditions.info>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:45 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] How to fix broken USB plug on external hard drive
Hi
Today I tried to plug in my USB 500 GB external hard drive. I noticed
it didn't come up as a drive under the list of drives under windows 7. So,
I
started trouble shooting it. I notice that the USB Minnie jack on the
drive
was a little loose. As I was examining it I heard a snap and it became
very
loose. Apparently this is the problem with why the drive is not working. I
check the cable against another device and it is good. My question is how
do
I get this jack fixed? I have a lot of personal data that I need to access
on this drive. Any ideas are appreciated.
Thank you.
God bless,
Mark
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