First Amiga 1200 but...

[Sutty100]

Just picked up my first 1200 had a 500 for a while. It boots up and loads into workbench off the harddrive although I first thought it was completly dead but it turned out the power lead had to be wiggled about abit before it would start...not great! Anyway the floppy disk drive whirs when a disk is put in put on workbench it just displays ? and cant open the disk or format it. I know the disks are good as the load just fine on my 500 any ideas?!

[Sutty100]

No I tried it after workbench booted from the HD I dont know how to stop it booting from the HD! most of my disks are copies I tried secret of monkey island, the tutorial disk "The very first" for workbench 1.3 as that's an "official" disk and another game that I knew could be loaded from workbench on my A500. No joy with any of them just ? it wouldn't even format them :-( I am a little suspicious as the person selling it said he had no floppy's to test the drive with which makes me think he said that being as he knew the drive didn't work! An external floppy that came with it seems to be dead as well didn't work with the A500 either.

[Sutty100]

Had it apart used a cotton bud on the drive heads also tried to boot from a floppy before and after this and no joy :-( does this mean I need to buy a new internal floppy? Anybody got any other ideas before I spend some more money! There seems to be different makes of floppy on ebay does this matter or will any work?

[Sutty100]

I swapped in my A500 floppy drive and it happily loaded disks. The 500 Disk drive doesn't fit in the case though so I can only test with that :-( I want to use my new Amiga NOW!!! tried cleaning the dodgy drive with a floppy disk cleaner with alcohol on and it made a horrendous noise!! it still doesn't read the disks so I'm going to buy a replacement drive they only seem to be ~£15 does it matter which make I buy will they all work? I got a CD Drive with it and that works so I am trying to work out how to install WHDLOAD so I can get some games going!