My trusty old 60GB Zen Vision M seems to have died for the last time. For several years I’ve been dropping it at least once a month, and it held up great. Once in a while it’d start skipping in a video and I’d open it up, reinsert the hard drive ribbon, and voila! Good as new (minus a few scratches). But this last time it gave me a firmware error message, and even after reloading the firmware it still wouldn’t work. I tried my usual fix, but nada. So I tried something else and somehow in all this the female battery connector on the circuit board broke off. I tried using glue (it was late, I was tired, and had no soldering iron…Idiotic, I know…), but while it worked for a few minutes, it broke off when I closed the thing up again, and I don’t know how to get the glue off (Loctite Super Glue) so that I can try soldering it back in place. If you know how to get superglue off electronic parts PLEASE let me know. Otherwise, where can I get just the connectors?

PS how can I anonymously post a picture of the part online?
PPS It’s a Li-Ion battery, charged the same way as an iPod.
Here are pics of the parts, f=female part, m=male; sorry, the photos are not great quality..

http://willhostforfood.com/files4/8/0/8/8088432/circuitboard.JPG

http://willhostforfood.com/files4/4/7/3/4735930/f1.JPG

http://willhostforfood.com/files4/9/4/3/9433512/f2.JPG

http://willhostforfood.com/files4/6/9/0/6903238/f3.JPG

http://willhostforfood.com/files4/3/7/4/3744156/f4.JPG

http://willhostforfood.com/files4/4/0/2/4029836/f5.JPG

http://willhostforfood.com/files4/2/3/7/237101/m1.JPG

http://willhostforfood.com/files4/6/4/9/6495692/m2.JPG

http://willhostforfood.com/files4/1/8/3/1832487/m3.JPG

What website can i buy hard drive circuit boards from? It is a standard Seagate barricuda 160gb.

I was given a hard drive with some very important data on it. My daugher said it "stopped working" and asked me to try to retreive the data. Using an external drive enclosure, it spun up and Explorer read the directory structure okay, but I didn't have time to work on it then. When I powered it up later, it wouldn't even spin up. I tried another enclosure to make sure it wasn't that.

Since Explorer read the directory the first time, I think the data on the disk is okay & it's an electronic problem. I might be able to swap the circuit board with another drive (same model). I've done that on large drives, but not on a 3 1/2" drive.
Do you know if that's possible without special eqpt.? Do you think it might work? This is a Samsung 8.4 GB drive. Do you think a circuit board from a different Samsung drive might work as well?

I'd trash this old HDD, but my daughter needs the data on it desperately. Any help appreciated!!