>
>I have a IIci that I believe has a floppy drive that is dying. It hadn't been
>started up for over 2 years.
>Every disk that I put in it prompts the message "This disk is
>unreadable by this
>Macintosh. Do you want to initialize the disk?"
>For the heck of it, I said yes once, but "Initialization failed" resulting in
>the disk being ejected.
Have you tried to put a vacuum cleaner on the floppy drive? That can
do miracles. BTW when cleaning fails you will be able to find a
replacement floppy drive very cheap. No need to canabilize your SE.
>
>I don't want to cannibalize the SE for the floppy because I was planning on
>passing the IIci onto someone else, and keeping the SE. It's just
>too darn cute
>to give up.
>
And you might end up with a IIci that can only read 800k floppies.
BTW if you know how to open that compact, you might wanna replace the
hard disk.
Marten
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