I have an old HD which failed days before I managed to suck all the data off, which

I'd been planning to do for years to convert it to Windows PC format, as its from my

old Acorn RiscPC and previous machines in the series I used to use until about 1999.

 

Someone once substituted the control board for the exact same for me (just happened

to be easier to send it off to them) but no luck.

 

Kept hold of it in case one day such low capacity drives (120MB I think) can be saved

for pennies, not £££s. Not that theres anything on there I really need I suppose.

I have an old 420mb amiga hard drive in the garage and surprisingly still powered up last time I tried it.

I had cobbled together all the old hardware off ebay (I'd sold everything apart from the HD back in 2000 when it was still worth something,

far more than a normal PC was at the time) and been using the system on and off for ages. 2 days after the PC link software had arrived,

it died... With the RiscPC, the actual main OS was on ROM so it simply couldn't be read, end of, rather than it not booting up.

 

Like your Amiga drive I suspect there's nothing I really need on there but did have all my uni and college stuff, which I'd at least liked to

have kept as PDFs.