And, at what was to be the final moment, reinstalling a hard drive, I finally did the dread mistake: I broke a pin on the SCSI hard drive, my main one. (Had to replace it with the back-up, noisy Barracuda! Double Aaaagh.)
Oh i did that too! - ), and I had some very fine drawings that I needed badly to keep - I cut a piece from a similairy thick metal wire and made it a fraction longer than the original pin and plunged that into the connector socket on the place where the broken pin should have been seated, and it was long enough to reach the bottom on the hard drive connector and make contact with what was left over where the pin had broke off AND after a few tryouts it worked, and then I never ever disconnected that hard drive again. I know this is not a fix but it's a way of saving precious data, with very limited tools - i think maybe the metal wire cut was a piece of brass paperclip, and it worked until I got a bigger drive.
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