I was having a bit of a play with my various systems today, but had a couple of disappointments, but as I know next to nothing about hardware, I need a little bit of help.
One of my FD-1s looks as though it needs a new drive belt. I've replaced the one in my 6128 which was straight forward enough. Is it much the same procedure in an external drive?
More worryingly, the disk drive in the 6128 isn't doing anything. The red led is on, but when I try to use it I get nothing from it, no whirring. Nothing. I'm guessing the motor may have gone. Is likely to be something easily fixable, or would it be best/easier to cannibalise an external drive?
Finally, I was hoping to format a few floppies to back up some other disks, but my CP/M disk is caput. My one working extra drive can't read the disk at all and, although my 6128+ does its best, there are so many errors it just freezes when I try to run disc kit. So this leaves me with 2 questions - where would I most likely be able to find a copy of the system disks (1 & 2. I have 3 & 4 working just fine)? And, guessing the FD-1 just needs a good clean up - are there any areas I should be paying more attention to/should be avoiding?
Sorry for the noob questions. I've only recently returned to the computers of my youth and I'm trying to keep the hardware as original as possible
