...I keep getting messages saying insert workbench even when it's already inserted.It does this for other programs too.
That is frequently the disk sensor button.
My 500 did that when I first got it..
(Sometimes, when I ejected a disk, it didn't know I had ejected it either)...
In your disk drive, there's a little button you can see.
It's inside, near the front on the side (can't remember which side; left I think while looking at it???).
You can take a screwdriver and push the little button down and it should come back up.
Most likely, that's a bit sticky/corroded.
You can take some contact cleaner or even just some rubbing alcohol and put a bit on there and then move the button up and down a bunch.
(This is difficult to describe without it sounding bad...:rofl: )
"Disk is corrupt" could be bad disks or a dirty floppy drive.
If you have a floppy cleaner, I'd use that...
(It's a good investment, only $5 or so bucks (or was last I checked) if you can find one usually..)
One thing, if you have a floppy disk that is dirty or moldy, and you clean the drive and then place that disk back in, your drive gets dirty again... ;-) I've had that happen (with a C64 floppy that I hadn't looked closely enough at. Luckily, it's easy to wash 5 1/4" floppies. Haven't tried that with an Amiga floppy.)
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