Portable Harddrive USB port broken!
 

Does anyone know how or where I can fix it for cheap? The USB port in the portable harddrive is loose and just rolling around in there..any ideas? All my past and current assignments + pictures are in there =(

Take the hard drive out and put it in a new casing. Not worth fixing the old casing.




Here's one for $7: http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=42...c&promoid=1338
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but I have all my assignments in there =/

the new casing is just that - a casing. Your hard drive will function just the same. You're not wiping any information.

can ncix do it for me? cause I have no idea how to do it

If you put the HDD into a new housing, you don't actually lose the contents of the HDD. Meaning your assignments will still be there. Make sure you buy the appropriate housing size depending on your portable harddrive, 3.5'' or 2.5''.

Similar to this:

Yeah. It's literally like 5min. worth of work if even that.

http://s13.postimage.org/wb9tpdmpf/20130117_024313.jpg

I plucked it out of the hard drive case. I try prying the bottom, but it looks like it's glued onto something

You need to unscrew the outer metal bracket in order to free the hard drive. From the picture, you can see two screws on left left side of the picture. Also unscrew the two on the right.

After you have freed up the harddrive you can either buy a harddrive enclosure at a place like NCIX. Or you can plug the harddrive into your desktop computer if you have one via sata cable and power cable.

It should look like this after you have removed the bracket:

http://www.legitreviews.com/images/r...2002_front.jpg

THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH! The best $8 I spent in my entire life! thank you guys very much! you guys are so helpful! :fullofwin:

One last thing, is there a online storage that has lots of space to upload any type of file for free?

^dropbox. Sign up with your school email + download it on your iphone/android/ipad/etc. to get additional space. I have about ~20gb all for free!

Microsoft Skydrive has 7GB, Google Drive has 5GB,or Dropbox and you can find promos to add free space to dropbox.

EDIT: I have 75gb on dropbox St the moment. :D
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Doesn't count if it expires! /jealousy

it doesn't require a power source outside of the usb? my WD portable HDD's mini usb broke, and I ended up getting a new replacement board with USB from ebay for 20 bucks

This would have been much better

48gb is from my Galaxy S3 promo, but I will still have over 25GB left when that expires in 2014. And I'm sure I can do other things to increase the space by then. :concentrate:

No, 2.5" drives (such as the Seagate Momentus pictured in the original) do not need extra power. USB power is enough. Also, why buy a new USB board when a new case (with the same functionality) is $7?

I never knew something like that existed... Not even sure if that would work for my HDD.

The 2.5'' cases usually come with a board with usb port. So you basically bought the inside component and reused the original case, whereas kiwee just bought a new case and inside component.

I registered drop box a long time ago, I only have 2GB! I went into the promo link..I get more if I upgrade my account..$10/month...

mine required an ac power source

Then it's a 3.5" drive. The cases for those are still around $15-20, and includes a power source. Still cheaper than buying a replacement USB board and less hassle.

Thermaltake BlacX Duet Dual 2.5/3.5IN SATA Hard Drive Docking Station USB 2.0 eSATA
Mediasonic ProBox SuperSpeed 3.5IN SATA HDD External Hard Drive Enclosure USB3.0

good to know for the future.. thanks a lot!

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