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Macintosh Plus floppy issues

altayd9

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I tried to eject my system disk by dragging it to the trash, my ejection mechanism has a broken gear so I use the manual ejection but I guess before I got to do that it tried reading the floppy again after the ejection motor ran and it came back as unreadable. The boot disk is now corrupt, it will show me a happy mac and then get stuck in a reboot cycle. Does my floppy drive have something terribly wrong with it?

 
the broken gear can prevent the head from falling down, happened to me many times, probably just that.

The drive will detect a valid disk, but will not be able to read anything.

Remove the drive, the broken gear, clean both heads and have another try.

 
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