Hard Drive been demolished...help?

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this sounds like a lost cause to me, but I don't know if any of you guys have techie info beyond my knowledge (likely)

I'm doing a refurb for a guy who says his 'friend ran haywire in his PC with a screwdriver'. Understatement of the century. Motherboard has been brutally slaughtered, cables have been ripped off, it's a mess.

My biggest problem is the hard drive. This nutter has somehow ripped off the power supply connector pins from the drive. Can I buy a connector that can solder on to get this puppy working again, or has this guy's mate just cost him 80gb of info?

 

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Don't fancy your chances here. I know my brother managed to break a lin on the connector and that could be replaced. Fortunatly my Father in Law dose all the electronics soldering type stuff. But as to the power thing, not sure.

Prob better to buy a new HHD and start again.

WTF was "this friend" doing inside this PC with a screw driver. Is he "all there" or wot

 

Gonna try and buy connector pins - there's still a little bit of metal attached to the circuit board, so as long as that's not damaged, will try soldering something. My BF is an electrical genius (well, does it for a job anyway) so I'll leave the soldering down to him.

Thanks for the advice guys

I told this guy his friend has a lot to answer for. From the sounds of things, he was a litte...ahem...high.

 

for an update on the hard drive, I soldered a new molex connector on to the drive, and it's all working fine. So now I'm going into self employment fixing hard drives. lol.