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Thanks. I’ve heard about flux but I guess I wasn’t sure what it looked like. I haven’t run a cleaner disk through it (any brands you’d recommend?) I did try to clean the heads with a q-tip and 91% alcohol - hope I didn’t damage them in the process..

Thanks for all that! I’ll copy down the exact error when I get home. The mac’s Internal drive is seized up (I’d like to fix that as well, but figured I should do a practice run on this external drive first). But I have indeed booted it up successfully with a MacPaint/System disk in a different...

I opened up my external 800k drive, hoping I could fix it and get it to work with my 512k. Removed the old grease, added new grease, and thought everything would be good - but it seems there’s an issue with it still. The eject mechanism works fine now, but it doesn’t read disks (and honestly, I...

@olepigeon thank you! I have a feeling that was probably the issue. I ended up just pushing the case together using slightly more force than I had been, so I hope I didn’t dislodge anything or make the problem worse! Not extremely tempted to open this problem child up again... yet. 

Nevermind, it finally popped in! Sure was stubborn though. 

Thanks, screen is down already though. Does it matter which end goes in first, or is the case supposed to come down at a flat angle?

Driving me mad! I don't know if the case is warped, or if I'm just not manhandling this thing hard enough, but there's one corner (top left if the mac was standing upright) that just seems like it's not going to ever snap into place.  It shouldn't be this difficult, right? The Classic II I'm...