I went to pull out the hard drive in my Satellite R15 laptop and I accidently pulled the ribbon part out that goes to the motherboard. I couldn't get the ribbon to slide back in and finally I figured out how to lift the bracket up with the pressure pin. While doingthis the pin broke off and now I had to place tape over ribbon cable for it to stay in place but now it won't read the hard drive to boot up?? What do I need to do?
if its an inner difficult force then that's a IDE or SATA cable or archives cable. SATA is so plenty extra moderen and smaller. If that's exterior then that's merely a USB cable. the place that plugs into has a USB to IDE or USB to SATA (on extra moderen fashions). The IDE cable is a ribbon like cable frequently grayish in shade.
Sounds like you have damaged more than the pin. Maybe you bent or misplaced some of the connecting tabs or pins inside the connector or the pins of the motherboard circuitry. Take the tape off and try moving the connector around by finger pressure.
