[GH85Carrera]

Cool, more cool news. While the computer is on top of my desk, I unplugged on of the internal drives to hook up an old drive.

Years ago somehow there was a bad connection or extraterrestrials were trying to destroy my old files or something. The power connection for the hard drive just burned up. It fried the board in that one spot. It is all really tiny connections and my soldering iron was like trying to do trim nailing with a 12 pound sledge. So I put it on the shelf.

I finally found a replacement connector board, but the firmware was just a bit different, and it did not see data, just a drive. So I new the physical drive was OK, just not readable.

My business partner recently bough a really cool soldering and desoldering station for small circuits. I found just the connector on line, cut it in half so he did not have to do the data connector and the rest of the board. He soldered back on just the power connector, but it was a little crooked. It would not fit into an external drive module. Two separate cables work.

I am getting data files from 20+ years ago I feared were lost. Nothing earth shattering, but cool stuff I had forgotten I had.