7 Oct
2012
7 Oct
'12
8:37 a.m.
On 10/05/2012 11:11 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
you put in a disk, you get a cursor, but that`s it. Puter won`t give disk back. Do I have
to take it apart?
The eject mechanism on those slimline drives is prone to sticking; I had to
clean mine up with some isopropanol and then re-lube them for them to work
reliably.
The 'just a cursor' issue might just be dirty drive heads, so clean the
heads while you have the drives out and see if that cures it. There was a
huge build-up of crud on mine when I got the machine, and it gave the same
symptoms.
What software do you have for yours? Mine came with quite a pile 'o disks,
but of course only a tiny portion of what must have been available at one
time. (I think the only one I couldn't image was the Underground City game;
the game itself works, so I expect it's employing some form of copy
protection which my Imagedisk PC didn't agree with)
cheers
Jules