Well I pulled the hard drive and gave it a good whack or three and it booted. Doesn't sound very healthy though...
I will find me some 800K floppies and copy the files and replace the Miniscribe with a 250 MB I have spare. Did I read somewhere that you can use a 1.4 MB as an 800K floppy?
Yes you can in a sense..
Cover the whole other than the read/write lock with tape. That should make the machines think it's single-sided. However! It's not the best.
Because of the way Superdrive disks work (1.44), it doesn't work real well with the various strengths of magnetism.
It may just be worth it to pick up some 800k disks. The 1.44 will work in the meantime, but I got 10x 800k disks for like $10 shipped off of eBay
While it's not cheap, they were new, and the older floppies seems to last a LONG time compared to the 1.44.
It seems that older floppies were made with better/more expensive media, which is why they still last and run and are sometimes up to 20 years old and still work.
1.44MB floppies I got 2 years ago already have read/write errors, and I have had to throw out about 3/4ths of them because they went bad. Some of them were either never used, or only used 2x max.