Burned SATA power connector pins

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WhiteZhark

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I was assembling my computer the other day and I used a SATA power cable from my old PSU with a new one, and it ended up burning the SATA connector on one of my HDDs. My motherboard no longer recognizes the drive, and I don't think it's receiving power. I tested what I believe is the TVS diode near the power connector and it seemed to be functioning just fine. If the issue is just the SATA power connector pins, how should I go about fixing this?

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if your lucky there may be 3 party sellers that sell the drive pcb board on ebay or online. if your lucky you can swap the pcb and save the drive.
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Yeah, I didn't realize that beforehand. I know it now, but I already burned the pins on my hdd.
 
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I actually have an identical drive that I could take the PCB from but from what I've read swapping the PCB without retaining the ROM of the original board is unlikely to work, and on this particular PCB the ROM is integrated into the Main Controller IC. According to this site swapping the Main Controller IC is not something I should attempt on my own. I should have posted this initially but the PCB for this drive is a Samsung BF41-00133A.
 
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I ended up swapping the PCB's without any fiddling with ROM or Main Controller IC's and it ended up working out! I should have tried it sooner but I didn't realize how simple it was to swap the PCB. Thanks!
 
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