A1200 floppy will not boot discs times out -please help

[detrius]

Hi
Just bought an Amiga 1200,switches on fine with the enter disc screen.when i put in a floppy th efloppy light comes on it ticks over for 10 seconds than goes out without loading anything.it did work for a while .then didn,t once switched off and used later.Any ideas - please help

thanks
Andy m

[detrius]

Hi
Thankyou for your quick replys.I have tried numerous disks.inc benhmark3.0 and the official utilities that came with it.when it was working the drive sounded like it was searching the disk.now it has the same (just the motor running sound).rest are a mix of copied and official games.

thanks
andy m  :boohoo:

[detrius]

Hi Also tried cleaning the heads with a long cotto bud and alcohol.bit hard to get too

thankyou

[detrius]

Hi Guys had mine out to but no joy,annoying as it did work once.thanks anyway.I will work out the cost of the floppy,i gather it has to be tat one not an old one from a p.c..
may use an emulator and my bench discs if thats possible ??

thanks guys

ANDY M  :boohoo:  :boohoo:  :boohoo: