As others have said, you need disks intended for
single-density or double
density, not HD. I've also met one 1541 owner who swears that disks
without hub rings won't work in his drive (and never did) because the
mechanism doesn't grip them tightly enough (though I'm fairly sure that's
just due to a soft spring or a missing screw on the frame somewhere).
I don't ever recall seeing a HD disk with a hub ring. The only ones that
have them in my experience is the SD or DD disks.
g.