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Damaged ribbon whilst upgrading to 250mb HDD

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Old 28-03-2006, 9:40 PM   #1
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Damaged ribbon whilst upgrading to 250mb HDD

[FONT="Arial"]Hi to everyone, New to this BB,

I have damged the ribbon that connects the new drive to the motherboard.
Does anyone know where i can buy a new one??
cheers
John

Just for interest, i have made a temporary repair using a standard ide cable from a PC.[/FONT]
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Old 29-03-2006, 7:31 AM   #2
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Easily done. You can buy replacements from Satcure for £4.95. About 2/3 of the way down the page.
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Old 29-03-2006, 9:53 AM   #3
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Assuming that they use Industry Standard IDE drives then any conmputer shop wiill have one too.
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