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Hi! Composite of any kind are no difference TV has it too internally! That would be wonderful when TV is very high quality tube/circuit board to begin with. I think that someone would cut in byond the Tuner for composite. Aligning the drives is touch and go, once in a while I was successful. The rate is much better on screw type because it's easy to tweak until it fails either side and plant it in exactly midway. I always recheck it with series of formatted disks from fresh drives finding the both sides to get enough consistent results. Worst drives to align is split-belt type. That is far hard to do. Most of time on these screw types distrance between scratch marks is about less than 5 or so degrees. Lots of drives are all compatiable mechanically and most of time far easier to find a good used similar brand and swap the logic board that still works to a good mechanical drive. Amiga 880k drives are really PC 720k drives with bit of differences in logic board so the mechanical drive swapping the boards to another is good idea. The pinout is very close too but I still have not found the HOW-TO to hack the standard PC 720k drive for Amigas. BTW, I know that compaq SLT series laptop always use Toshiba drives which means you can replace the worn out mechanical part with good ones but still keeping the logic board. There's those crankerous capacitors too they does kill the HOT if the signal is not cleaned up by those little capacitors. And capacitors are used often to shape the waveforms to keep the tube image square and nice. Better Grab the Bob's ESR meter, it spots the baddies every time capacitance meter missed and excellent meter for fractions of a ohm or less as well. That is useful in hi frequency area where ESR values is important. I'm trying to get that ESR meter too since I fix tons of switching PSU and monitors because it's so inexpensive. About 60 USD and if anyone would like to, I have web url address. BIG LOUD OUCH! I knew about that too, Those disks is too far expensive for few fixes run to pay off in due time. :) Well, better renew the mechanicals to assure tight tolences! Screw type does wear out especially the pin that rides in screw groove. Not that hard if you can grab the pin real good firmly and pull and rotate it 180 and reinstall. And lot of 3.5" especially new ones are plain plastic bearings sliding on the smooth steel rods is the worst wear. Those ones who uses bushings fares better. All those oil and grease should be cheaned out and relubed again. And BIGGEST hint hint HINT, the belt driven drives is still made for those notebooks. Gak, I thought belt driven spindle is really no longer in production or in new design, OH BOY, what a biggest mistake! (Just fixed one recently.) Just in case anyone here, look into your notebook and look around the (purplish coloured) hub, you should see the black band, that's belt wound around it, spun by the elcheapo PM motor. When you work on one someday you will find there's is one fixed naked ball bearing idler for the belt. Jason D.