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Yeah I know, I know. It simply isn‘t worth the effort for me, especially since I have a perfectly healthy SE right next to it. Perhaps the next owner will be more willing to put in the time and effort into making this machine into something to be appreciated.

Damn, all I wanted was to just fix this thing up and be able to say I own an 030 machine if someone asks. I'd care more if it were an SE/30 but for a Classic II... meh. Maybe I'll just sell it off when it's working. To my defence "alcohol and qtips" are a bit of an oversimplification; after a...

Shame. Reviving this drive is out of the question then? And I would assume then that by strapping a new drive into this piece of shit I would have a good chance of killing that too? Sorry, but as one who has minimal experience with 90s Apple stuff (all my other Mac stuff from the 80s and 00s...

although i found evidence that the drive has been opened before and when light is reflected there are super thin scratches all round (like you'd find on a CD for instance) there's nothing to suggest a head crash really. I suppose I'll have to bring out my multimeter and start testing voltages.

My Classic II has always been a fickle machine (what with it having been revived with q-tips and rubbing alcohol) but a few weeks ago the hard drive went on strike as well. However, its symptoms are unlike anything I've found useful help for online. Nothing is necessarily stuck, but the hard...