[midiwife]

Hi, thanks to gibson for his/her post.

I've swapped my ailing 40G driver for a new 60Gb one from Scan.co.uk who I can heartily recommend. Mine cost me £111.00 including vat and delivery and it came the next morning.

The rubber surrounding the old drive is ever so slightly different in shape from the new driver but I've managed without serious problems. My main difficulty was getting it all back together again.

My biggest problem though was trying to see the new driver under WinXP. Partition Magic wouldn't have any of it and said it was 'locked'.

So I hooked it up to my mac and under disk utility I managed to erase the driver (which was seen no problem) as an MS-DOS format. Now when I look at it in Partition Magic it says BAD whereas my 120 machine reads FAT32.

However, the 140 (now 160) machine appears to be working just fine.

Now, hooked back up to a pc I'm transferring all my old stuff from my older HP120 with no problems. i.e., I can read from and write to my 140 machine.

I've got rockbox installed on both machines btw.

So one more converted iHP. So far so good.