i have bought a general pupose PC board from radio shack and need to know how to know where to put what components.there are 2200 holes in mine and i am building a guitar wah pedal.i have circuit designs and i have bought the components.i need to know how im supposed to know where to make the circuit on the pc board

I was hooking my 360’s DVD drive up to my motherboard via a SATA cable– and the dvd drives SATA port totally ripped off from the PCB. The spot where it was soldered in was completely stripped down to the plastic. I need to somehow get the SATA cable wires connected to the PCB again, even if it is a permanent connection.
Luckily all of the paths on the board have thru holes I can use, but Im not sure if they can be used as solder points. I could only come up with 2 plans to get this dvd drive working again, either use the strands from a straned wire I completely stripped to try to solder each individual SATA wire to its proper path OR follow the paths to the terminal of the first component and just solder into those since it would still be the same node.
Im wondering if anyone knows any other tips/tricks that I could use that might be easier or just better in general. Im open to trying anything at this point because I dont want to have to buy a new 360 dvd drive for .
Here is a link to a page a threw together to show the damage.

http://bonesaw.kicks-ass.org/PCB.html

ok, I didn’t relize yahoo would block part of my web address. I have to reveal the black portion in 3 parts so it wont be blocked again……. here it is
a** + *s* + **s
sorry for the 50 additions

the missing connector was actually the power supply and not a SATA port like my original question stated. Its a 12 pin connector with multiple pins going to ground and some are not used.

I’d like to know how to obtain plain undrilled boards, and wire those. I don’t know how the process would work. The same goes for predrilled boards, boards with plated through holes, boards with 3 holes bridged etc. Where do you get transfer paper that you can put in a regular printer? I have an excellent CAD program for creating artwork. Is wire wrapping and point to point soldering even used anymore? Help!

Okay, so those of you who know that an electronic siren just uses a circuit and one or more speaker horns know what I mean by "electronic siren." And those of you who know that most mechanical sirens are the kind with an air-pump-like fan with little plates on the ends of each of its blades that match up with the holes in the case so that the flow of air being sucked in gets chopped off by the blockage of the holes by those plates on the ends of the blades, know what I mean by a mechanical siren.

Mechanical sirens are more commonly still used on fire trucks, while electronic sirens are more commonly used on the police cars and ambulances of today.

Mechanical sirens tend to be louder and more piercing and more scary-sounding than electronic ones.

Tornado warnings are usually given by mechanical sirens, but some of those are still sent by electronic ones. While many of the sirens up on poles are mechanical, several pole-mounted sirens are just electronic horns, too.

Burglar alarm sirens are typically electronic.

I think I saw a TV show were I could tell that the prison-break siren was a mechanical one, and I thought, "Hmm, that's odd…. Couldn't they just use an electronic siren horn for a place like that," even though I'm more interested in mechanical sirens.

Well, so what is it? Are more prison-escape sirens of the mechanical pursuasion, or are more of them the simple electronic ones?

And if more of them are mechanical, why would they be more likely to need that kind just to warn of a prisoner who either was trying to escape or who had succeeded in escaping? Why wouldn't they figure that an electronic horn-based siren could give enough coverage and warning for prison escapes?

(When I say mechanical, I'm not including whether or not the horn spins around or not. That can be done with either kind of siren. Don't include that into the equasion.)

Will you come back and see if I have any clarifications for your answers, please?

Thanks, if so.
BTW, don't say something like, "It depends on which prison," because duh, that's why I said words like "most" and "more," rather than words like "all" or "none."
I didn't know a prison escapee could knock out an electronic horn. How? Can you tell me more, please? What are the chances of one of those being zapped by some kind of electronics zapper?

Thanks, sounds interesting so far.
(^^^ CLARIFICATION for what answerer "Confuzzed" said.)
CLARIFICATION for something Nightrider said:

Thanks for that long explanation about what happens at your prison. But I wasn't talking about wind-up sirens, of course. I was talking about the kind with a motor, which, in fact, are still very prevalent today. As I said before, you'll find those on a lot of current-model fire trucks, still. Many fire houses still have them. Brand-new mechanical sirens are being made right now.

Oh, and by the way, I didn't just see a mechanical prison siren in an old movie. Here's one in action on YouTube (if the Y! will let me supply the link to make it work, but if not, just search for "prison siren" there–especially "Chino prison siren test, which includes this particular video):

That's a mechanical siren.
(Oops, I forgot to close-quote "Chino prison siren test" there just barely. No biggie, though, of course.)

I need to make a series of circuit, each made up of a relay and a capacitor.

At the local electronic store, I only found only circuit board which is already leaded in series of connected lines (horizontally).

I need a circuit board of only holes with single lead so that I could arrange the circuits ( 1 relay and 1 capacitor) in linear form, side by side and the terminals of the relays and capacitors won't short circuit.

Is there such a circuit board? What do people call it then?