Thanks for the detailed instructions but I hope it won't come to trying to repair the drive. Someone was kind enough to offer up a possible replacement off list so I hope that does the trick. Your guess about what happened sounds about right. I just got this IPC as an "as-is" project and I'm not sure if the drive head was broken before it was shipped, during shipping, or after I got it when I fought with the drive a little to get a stuck disk out. At first I thought there was something like a dead bumblebee stuck in the drive. Only after I disassembled the machine enough to get the drive out and take a close look did I realize that what I saw was the upper head broken off of the arm and dangling by the coil wires. -Glen _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx