USB receptor port has broken off

Hi I have a HP SD500a portable hard drive. The USB receptor port has proken off. I can hear it rattling around inside the hard drive. Can this be repaired? If not is there a way of saving the data on the hard drive?

First thing I would do is check to make sure the sata cable is securely attached. If its loose at all, it may not be connecting. Second is that you do need to go to Computer Management and open Disk Management.Do you see a drive that displays as Unallocated? It should also say how much space is available and it should be "almost" 500GB. Not sure of the exact size but would be 400 something.If so, right click on that and choose New Simple Volume. A new window will open. Leave the size of the drive as is and click next.Assign a drive letter that's not already used in Disk Management.Click Next and choose the option to not format the drive. That way, if this works and all it needed was a drive letter, it wont wipe the data on the drive. Give the Volume label field a name for the drive (example: Old Simplesave).Click Next and select Finish. Note I: I don't think you will have to format the drive in the instructions above, but if it wont work without formatting, you would lose your data. If you reformat, you can try recovery software to recover most of the data. A small percentage would be lost due to the formatting process though. Recuva is a free recovery tool that works very well.Note II: If the unallocated space shows up as a very small amount and or you only see that drive identified as a CD drive, then either the drive has failed or it has a CD emulator chip built onto the board of the drive and is possibly preventing you from connecting it directly to SATA.
Let me know if this works or not.

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