PATA Laptop HDD Pin Broke

[nVidiavsAMD]

Hello, I tried to remove my PATA HDD (fujitsu mhv2060ah) from my laptop and one of the pins broke off. According to this schematic:

Pin number 44 broke off. I turned on my laptop and everything went fine, slow as usual. Was this pin important? Will it change anything.

Thanks in advance.

 

[jarotech]

Hi, in two of my IBM laptops the pin 44 is not connected to the motherboard. If you give me the mark and model of your laptop, maybe with the schematic, I could verify if the pin is connected to the motherboard.

 

[nVidiavsAMD]

Hi, in two of my IBM laptops the pin 44 is not connected to the motherboard. If you give me the mark and model of your laptop, maybe with the schematic, I could verify if the pin is connected to the motherboard.

My laptop is a IBM ThinkPad T42.

 

[jarotech]

Coincidentally, mine is a T41, the pin 44 is not connected to the motherboard, you are safe.