Bent pin on an IDE disk drive
It turned out that Santa had brought my son some PC games and as his machine was basically in bits on Christmas Eve I started to put it all back together. Unfortunately I was a little too fortified with Christmas Cheer (Camel Valley Sparkling Wine) and I got the IDE cable of his hard drive back-to-front, thus breaking that one pin that lines up with the blanked hole on the interface. The pin was now 2 mm long and would not reach into its hole in the interface cable.
Here is how to fix a broken pin on an IDE disk drive:
· Get a pin or needle used for sewing.
· Insert the pin into the correct hole in the interface card.
· Remove pin and cut to length
· Get a bar of chocolate
· Eat the chocolate
· Take aluminium foil from the chocolate bar and tear a tiny piece from it.
· Pack the tiny piece of foil into the appropriate hole in the interface cable
· Insert the pin into the hole in the interface cable - thick end first.
· Attach cable to disk.
· Never remove cable
· Never tell anyone.
I hope that helps.
Happy New Year.
