B00ze wrote:

So I'll be sending it away. Found a place with a fixed price depending
on hard drive size. Since this is a really small drive, the price is
good. I'll give'em the donor drive too. I will report back.

I don't think you ever mentioned the drive's size. What is it? And how
much did the unidentified repair service center they would charge? Be
interesting to know what they are charging per MB or GB. Do they have a
web site? Also be interesting would be for you to return here to say if
they repaired the drive okay or were able to read everything off the old
one to put on a new one.