Author Topic: First Amiga 1200 but... (Read 3246 times)

Cammy · « **on:** July 30, 2011, 10:37:45 PM »

If you can't even format disks, it sounds like your drive is dirty. I have bought, picked up and been given quite a few old Amigas over the years, and every one of them had the same problem reading and writing floppy disks. I thought they were all wrecked, until I got myself a cleaning disk kit and ran that through them, now they all read disks perfectly. I think every Amiga user should have one of these!

UK: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Floppy-Disk-Drive-Cleaner-Wet-Dry-Cleaning-Kit-/190406236846
US: http://cgi.ebay.com/Gemini-3-5-3-1-2-Floppy-Disk-Drive-Cleaning-Kit-NEW-/200614297787
AU: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Halloa-3-5-Floppy-Disk-Drive-Head-Cleaner-Kit-/260775532907
HK: http://cgi.ebay.com/3-5-Floppy-Disk-Drive-Cleaner-Wet-Dry-Cleaning-Kit-/160623234636

I hope this is all that needs to be done, it's a simple fix but it's such a common problem.