Knackered Disk Drive Any Options??

By Farzana Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:54 pm

The floppy drive in my 2000xl has stopped reading my disks or saving.

I have tried a head cleaner but not entirely sure im cleanng it properly..the instructions were in japanese.

have i any other options before checking it in to be repaired whichll cost me about £200?????

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East London-based female producer using 2KXL. I use tabla rhythms with breakbeat and hip hop rhythms and put big big juicey melodies over the top of them add a few quirky sprinkles. I love my music only slightly less than I love my mum.

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By Smoove03 Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:18 pm

well my drive used to click but i think it was my disk....but anyway i downloaded the latest OS and unzipped it to my floppy disk and it solved the problem. even though you think its your drive try downloading the os again and putting it on a floppy and try it again. maybe it'll help.

thats all i can suggest. dont know anything else

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By beauchampy Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:23 pm

dude, its just a standard floppy drive which costs about £4. undo the screws on the underside of your 2000xl, take out the plugs from the back of the broken drive, stick in a new drive, put the plugs back in, do up the screws, bingo!

its a very simple operation. you can get floppy drive for real cheap from www.ebuyer.com

Im guessing your're in the US:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... uid=136869

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By beauchampy Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:26 pm

my mistake, obviously you're english since you said the repair in £.

this is what you want:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=23925

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By Farzana Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:02 pm

when i spoke to the repair centre they said you cant install a standard floppy disk drive.

the guy said that the mpc compaitable drive costs over £80

is this a fib then?

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By Lampdog Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:19 pm

Farzana wrote:when i spoke to the repair centre they said you cant install a standard floppy disk drive. the guy said that the mpc compaitable drive costs over £80 is this a fib then?

2 things.
1. Customer Service people tell others that you need a special floppy drive cause they don't know any better
or
2. They just want to get more money from you.

It's a standard floppy drive, the SAME kind you have in your PC. Just buy another one from ANY pc store in your area and install it, the exact way beauchampy described.