Shoutbox

yeah, i had found that thread...... and a similar one by the same person.....i've actually e-mailed a guy who [at that time] offered that board to see if he can still supply it to me.

i wouldn't try mucking around with soldering stuff myself.  if the board didn't work or a board from a similar hard drive didn't work i'd ask a professional mate of mine if he knows anything else i can do (or that he could do)....if not then i'm pretty stuffed

if i couldn't recover the data i wouldn't bother replacing the drive......i'm not gonna be able to rebuild what was on it, so i wouldn't bother getting another external hard-drive....if i did repair it (by whatever means) i'd buy a newer external hard-drive to put all the data onto