H120 problems

[Godfa7h3r]

I've had my 120 for a few months now and was working great until recently. I ran the battery dead and it wouldn't recharge. So I ordered a new battery from Laptopsforless.com which just came in today. I just finished up the install, hoping for the best. I used a custom USB cable that also is a charger to attempt to charge the new battery. Not to my surprise, the battery didn't hold charge, telling me that it is another problem.

However, when I would plug in the power, the player would automatically turn itself on, and attempt to boot. I would get the iRiver screen, then to the start screen, and then I'd get hit with the "Check your HDD connection". The backlight would also flicker on and off when it was plugged in, not sure why.

I'm getting to the point where I just want to rescue my music off of the hard drive and don't really care what happens to the player. Any help and/or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

EDIT: Just a thought; could I have wired up the wrong battery polarity? Or would it not even have turned on if I had? Because the connector on the new battery was wired backwords, so I just desoldered the old wires from the old battery and resoldered them to the new battery instead. Although I'm about 95% positive I wired it correctly, the terminals on the new battery may have been backwords?

[CheeseBurgerMan]

You need to check the connection on your HDD. (just like the error says )

[Godfa7h3r]

Oh I know, that was the first thing that I did naturally. I also tried turning it on without a hard drive connected whatsoever just to see what would happen, and I got the same screens, they just got there a little faster. I don't know how my hard drive could have went bad though. And even if it was, shouldn't the new battery hold a charge?

[Godfa7h3r]

Any ideas guys? I'm getting deperate. Anyone have a working H120 mobo they'd be willing to sell?