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I have a Macintosh SE in excellent condition, but with a faulty hard drive. Thanks very much to acsi for the replacement drive - it runs fine now

I have blogged about the drive replacement here:

http://www.vintage8bit.com/content/rc20 ... experiment

Good reading about your repair Andrew. One more SE lives.

I have a broken SE here that defeated me. I've still got most of the parts (minus HD..I used that for something else) and if I ever get an SE junker with a working video board I might have another crack. I'm not too worried though as I've got an screamingly fast SE/30 which satisfies me.

One thing. I'm sure you know about this already but the standard old SC HD Setup doesn't recognise non-apple drives. This caught me out when I was trying to delete At Ease from a Classic II. It was as if the HD just didn't exist! Even Norton's could only see it, it couldn't do anything with it. I was stumped unti I discovered the that it needed patching. Your drive obviously used to boot though so it likely it is stuffed. Is it an Apple-branded drive though? Anyway, just thought I'd mention it in case. You don't want to be throwing away a drive that might be salvagable.

Yes, I'd read about the HD SC patch, and plan to make use of it one day

The dead SE drive is the original Apple marked HD20 SC.

The SE/30 was the pinnacle of Macintosh development in my (horribly biased and deliberately contrary) opinion.