Does anyone know any ways to repair a circuit board that had a connector rip off of it?

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:31:55 +0000

I was hooking my 360′s DVD drive up to my motherboard via a SATA cable– and the dvd drives SATA port totally ripped off from the PCB. The spot where it was soldered in was completely stripped down to the plastic. I need to somehow get the SATA cable wires connected to the PCB again, even if it is a permanent connection.
Luckily all of the paths on the board have thru holes I can use, but Im not sure if they can be used as solder points. I could only come up with 2 plans to get this dvd drive working again, either use the strands from a straned wire I completely stripped to try to solder each individual SATA wire to its proper path OR follow the paths to the terminal of the first component and just solder into those since it would still be the same node.
Im wondering if anyone knows any other tips/tricks that I could use that might be easier or just better in general. Im open to trying anything at this point because I dont want to have to buy a new 360 dvd drive for .
Here is a link to a page a threw together to show the damage.

http://bonesaw.kicks-ass.org/PCB.html

ok, I didn’t relize yahoo would block part of my web address. I have to reveal the black portion in 3 parts so it wont be blocked again……. here it is
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sorry for the 50 additions

the missing connector was actually the power supply and not a SATA port like my original question stated. Its a 12 pin connector with multiple pins going to ground and some are not used.

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Does anyone know any ways to repair a circuit board that had a connector rip off of it?