My hard drive does not work, and my computer won't let me do anything to it

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I have a 1.5 tb hard drive in one of my computers. After it was having problems booting to windows, I decided to take the hard drive out and put it in another computer so I can wipe it and reinstall windows. When I was taking the sata cable off, I acidentally tore the plastic part off of the sata connection on the hdd. I was able to still plug it in to the sata cable because the plastic part was still inside of the sata cable. I thought I fixed it because my pc recognize the hdd, but when I tried to format it my pc said an error occurred. I checked properties and it said 0mb used, 0mb available, but in the format window it showed the full(almost) 1.5tbs. I tried using diskpart to clean the drive, but is said "DiskPart has encountered an error: The system cannot find the file specified." My computer recognises the drive, so I think the problem is maybe something on the drive got corrupted, but I don't know for sure. Does anyone here think they know how to fix it? Thanks in advance for your help
 

zero_l0gic

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depends on what broke off. check the pins INSIDE the connector that broke (use any other sata for reference point of how it should look, if the pins are bent try to put them back in place) and pull any left over broken plastic from cable and port. and if its broken broken you can to replace the port if you find it but that will take a steady hand and alot of solder skills.

and if you are worried about the data on it, send it to a professional for data recovery and show them the problem and they will replace it for you if that is the only thing wrong with it ( if the broken pins fried something on the HDD its much harder and expensive to recover)
 
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I checked all of the pins and bent them back into place and it slides nicely into the sata cable with the platic still in the cable, but it still has the same issue so maybe its a software issue because the drive was having issues before I broke the sata cable which is why I tryed to remove it in the first place. Btw I don't care about recovering anything on the drive.