30 Apr
2007
30 Apr
'07
3:19 a.m.
roger pugh wrote:
There is a very high chance that the floppy disk drive
has a broken or
streached drive belt preventing it from turning the floppy. A Rubber
band is a good temporary substitute.
I know I've said it before on here... the owner of the first computing place I
worked at used to make a fortune out of replacing those belts. We used to have
a lot of Amstrad stuff come in, and 9 times out of 10 on those machines the
culprit was a stretched or broken belt.
It was an easy five minute fix, but I think the repair charges were a flat
rate for the first hour or something, so he used to make an absolute bundle
out of those systems.