Quote:   That seemed to be the problem! The next problem was the replacement connector I ordered from Amazon didn't work, so I ditched the project for a few days until another one was sent to me, possibly by mistake. I hooked it up as a last ditch effort right now and it works fine! 256GB...

Dangit, now I put the 240gb HDD I had in it before and it won't start up, just sits on the Apple logo or sometimes shows the "connect to itunes" display. I think I may have actually busted the little hard drive connector. They were $3 on Amazon so I ordered one but does anyone know if this could...

Well, it's in disk mode now. Not seeing a device or drive pop up on my Mac though.   Getting this in dmesg     USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 000A270015A77D7E 0x5ac 0x1209 0x2 USBF: 137101.178 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8014cda000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus...

Disk mode... hmm.. Lemme try that.   I know I didn't destroy any wires or cables since the OG drive works.

So I've purchased the m4 256GB SSD along with a the ZIF>mSATA adapter suggested as a bundle, got everything together and am trying to get it to work with my 5G, no matter what, though when the ipod starts up it shows the 'dead ipod' screen after a little bit and shuts off. Does the SSD need to...