Today I received Alien Breed 3D that I bought on eBay. Immediately put both disks in my A1200 in order to install game straight onto harddisk. Instant very loud squealing from both drives. Somewhat startled I was unable to respond for a while! Squealing stopped with one disk being displayed as non-dos and the other not being shown on Worbench at all. Disks removed; others inserted - not recognised. PC0: and PC1: mounted and external drive just about read PC formatted disks but says they have errors and occasionally declares an error in the file allocation table. Having looked closely at the murdering disks, I find that there appear to be scratches on the surfaces. I can only assume that they were unused and therefore dusty and that the disk drive heads have been scratched. Is this likely to be the case? Would a disk-head cleaner help or am I going to be replacing drives? Has anyone else experienced anything like this? As you can imagine I was tearing my hair out in anger and have only just calmed down enough to write this. If anyone could help I would be very grateful. e-Bay ain't all good, eh?
