One of my USB Floppy Disk Drives stopped working today so before putting it in the Spares and Repairs pile I thought I'd grab a screwdriver and see if there was anything I could do to get this working again...
As you can see, I had to carefully remove two of the rubber feet to reveal the 2 screws I needed to remove to get in to the disk drive. Once I had removed the screws I took a good look at the drive and couldn't see anything wrong, except for the metal bar at the front of the drive was slightly bent so I straightened that out.
After putting the drive back together (despite not actually doing any repairs) I decided to quickly test it and (as if by magic) it was reading and writing disks again!
As you can see, I had to carefully remove two of the rubber feet to reveal the 2 screws I needed to remove to get in to the disk drive. Once I had removed the screws I took a good look at the drive and couldn't see anything wrong, except for the metal bar at the front of the drive was slightly bent so I straightened that out.
After putting the drive back together (despite not actually doing any repairs) I decided to quickly test it and (as if by magic) it was reading and writing disks again!