I just was attaching my hard drive to my computer when I hear this crush sound and notice that one of the Hitachi 200gb drive's pins is broken from the area where its soddered to the board of the drive. Can this be fixed? Is it possible to buy exact hard drive and replace the curcuit board? and how easy would this be to do? I have all my data on this drive and I need to get to it! The pin that broke(part of the 40-pin lineup) is the last pin closest to the area of pins where you SET slave and master functions.
please respond asap...

thanks for any help

paoloHello my dear, how are you? Dont WORRY if it is the last corner pin. Have you try to attach it to the motherboard? If no then, do attach it and tell me what HAPPEN. If it doesn't WORK then yes, it is possible to change the circuit board of the hard disk with an old but exactly same board. But I am sure that it will work and you wont need to replace the circuit board.
Take care of you and others and be happy.
D Wahabit is the pin on the actual hard drive.  so i can not attach cable to the hard drive itself...the motherboard does not RECOGNIZE it...