At 23:31 -0700 on 16/09/01, Jane Thompson wrote:
>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.
You might have a dirty drive. Try cleaning it up a bit. Directions are in
the FAQ.
If that doesn't do it, the heads could be misaligned, but it's easier to
just replace the drive than re-align the heads.
p
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