ok lets start again.

I found a color classic on new zealands ebay trademe.co.nz

it would not boot..

so when it came i looked inside bad caps.

replace the caps and booted it up and :?: !!

downloaded a boot disk and up it came ( ok hdd bad?? )

put the hdd in my classic II to see whats on the hdd and it booted the CC hdd (oooh the hdd is not bad xx( )

ok i have some Q's

1 can a dead pram battery(3.6v) stop the hdd from working

2 Network Access Disk image. dose it see hdd's