Hi everyone - I'm desperate for some help here. A few months ago I bought a Seagate FreeAgent desktop 250Gb external hard drive and its been great all this time. I did something very dumb the other day and tripped over the USB wire that was connecting it to my laptop and it fell. When i tried to connect the USB(mini?) back into the external the port was loose and wiggling around inside the case. I opened it up and found that the port had disconnected from the circuitboard. I really just want to repair this as the rest of the drive is not damaged and I cannot afford to have the recovery done (they want 1700 for it!) can anyone tell me how to repair this or point me to a place that will do it

Find someone that specializes in general electronics repair, might be just a resolder job. gl

I live in a smaller town without a lot of computer repair specialist so I take my boards to a tv repair man. They are used to replacing chips and capacitors and soldering. If you have all the pieces ready, you probably could just walk in and watch him solder it

You could buy an external USB drive enclosure and move the physical hard drive into the new enclosure. It's not very difficult and won't cost much.