It's possibly something called 'stiction' (a cross between friction and stuck!). If the microdrive has been squashed at any time on the larger flat surfaces, it could compress the innards and cause it to make odd noises as well as rendering it unusable. This can sometimes be corrected by sending them off to be repaired (by IBM, I think), but as the price of them has come down so much,it may not be worth it.
I had one with this problem about 2 years ago, when the price of a replacement was too high to warrant simply binning the old one! Hth Best Nick Dunmur -- Nick Dunmur - photographer 0115 950 9685 prodig<at>nickdunmur.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
