ollienorth

You should be able to check if the HDD has disconnected by removing the metal bacl plate. I think the NWA 1000 and 1200 must be pretty similay. on the nwa 1000 this is done by getting some plyers and grabbing the silver loop on the topback of that player for a carrying strap. this is lulled up and backwards at an angle i seem to remember. it is held on by some adhesive stuff. once that is off the back just slots off and you can check the connections. i hope this helped.

in reply to both of these posts thanks for trying it out, glad you liked it =]. and the other post , the dust will just get in as much as if it wasn't off as the second plastic layer has a tighter seal around the body of the player. but if that does happen you can just take that one off and clean it and put it back on again. thaks for the replys

hey i also had the problem with the dust and crumbs and what ever under the cover of the casing. i decided to go for it and slid a drawing pin all around the front cover of the unit. the cover (purple in my case) poped off, it is a thin seethrough piece of plastic covering the player. when i got it off it looked even cooler, so i cleaned it and left it off it now looks like this - (and the screens loads brighter now as it doen't have to get through the cover. so you can use it outside for the first time =] good look ) also this very probally identically for nwa 3000