How to connect external sata Seagate drive with broken USB to PC - win 10.

Tombox

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External Seagate out of case. USB physicalky broken -Can I plug this into the ribbon connectors ( name?) Seagate 500 GB. Will plugging it in endanger the data. What is the best method? Lots of backup on drive. Reply in fairly none too techy terms please. Thanks in advance, tom
 
Solution
Yes , it needs both, data and power cables connected, same as any disk mounted inside. BIOS and OS should be able to read it if it's in working order.