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From: bwill@athena.mit.edu (Brian F Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Help with bad internal disk drive needed
Summary: How do you fix mis-aligned drive
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.210511.12010@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 91 21:05:11 GMT
Sender: bwill@athena (Brian Williams)
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	I saw a post recently where a 500 user complained that his drive 
would not always cold boot, but would usually warm boot correctly.  He was 
advised that the problem was most likely a mis-aligned drive.  My 
internal 500 drive appeared to be working fine until one day it simply would
not boot up.  After many, many tries, it worked, but since then it hasn't 
worked again.  I can hear the drive clicking and when I insert a boot disk it
sounds as though it thinks the disk is a non-dos disk, i.e. it doesn't read
anything off the disk.  Is this a mis-aligned drive, and if so, is there any
way to adjust it myself?  I noticed that I can't even remove the screws from 
the case, because they're star-shaped.  Unfortunately, my 500 is not under
warranty any more, and there aren't any dealers or service shops in the area.

Thanks.
	Brian Williams	
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