Broken hard drive port fix?

Question

I own a buffalo HD-PNTU3 hard drive that lost it s usb cable, so I bought one on Amazon that ripped out a part from the usb port. Can I get my saved data back?

Answer 1

What I would do is try to repair the connector itself. It it's just a broken pin or something, there's a good chance that a bit of solder and fine wire could do it. The fix only has to last long enough for you to get the data off into the cloud, or onto another drive.

If you are not technically oriented, but still are comfortable tinkering with it, then buy another identical drive from Amazon or elsewhere, open the new enclosure, and swap the hard drive inside for your old one. Since you would probably need a new drive anyway, this doesn't really cost as much as it sounds.

Answer 2

If you din't format it. It is probably still on it.

Answer 3

If the USB port broke, you're out of luck unless you can get it soldered it back together.

The problem is that the little USB-to-SATA board has the drive encryption. Your drive is encrypted. Putting the drive into a cheap USB shell won't help. Contact Buffalo.

Answer 4

Buy a new enclosure and put the hard disk unit in that.
Edit: This enclosure "station" has OPTIONAL encryption. IF no password was used, the drive can be used anywhere.