Floppy

Floppy Another common problem that you may encounter is a stuck or broken floppy drive door. There are a few things you can check on with this particular problem. First, it could be a bad floppy drive and you may need to have it replaced. Second, you could have inserted the floppy disk incorrectly and third, there could be a small object stuck in the door preventing it from opening. Maybe a young child put something in the drive. If so, that can either leave it stuck or even break the drive door completely.

You have to be completely careful when trying to fix this problem.

You may be able to use a screw- driver to lightly force the object out or if you just have a sticky drive, you could use an oiler or lubricator to stop that. If the drive appears to be broken, you may need to purchase a new one or have a professional look it over.

Here's one more tidbit for you. If you use floppy disks often, you know there is a magnet part in the middle of the disk. Make sure you don't mess with that magnet or you could lose all of the information you have saved. If your disk stops working suddenly, chances are something happened with the magnet, so watch out for that!  