Star castler #1 Posted December 9, 2015 I happen to have 4 disk drives, 2 810, 2 1050, all dead since I last checked. I have at least 50+ disks and whatnot and I need your help on what I should do. I enjoy using the real hardware and I'm wondering what on earth I should do with my disk drive situation. I'm wondering about repair options or if at this point I should get new drives instead. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luckybuck #2 Posted December 9, 2015 www.best-electronics-ca.com/ and everything will be OK again. :-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Star castler #3 Posted December 9, 2015 (edited) I know about Best Electronics, but do they do repairs? Oh and I love Best. Very good service. Edited December 9, 2015 by Star castler Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luckybuck #4 Posted December 9, 2015 They have decades of experience! They have a special task force for repairing old disk drives, the Jedi team... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Star castler #5 Posted December 9, 2015 Awesome, I'll send a message to them soon. Thanks for your help! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryanmercer #6 Posted December 9, 2015 Definitely fix them. Most common thing is probably going to be capacitors. I've a few I need to replace caps in myself, I just never feel like doing it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AtariGeezer #7 Posted December 9, 2015 I happen to have 4 disk drives, 2 810, 2 1050, all dead since I last checked. How so? won't power up, won't boot or ?? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fujidude #8 Posted December 9, 2015 Definitely fix them. Most common thing is probably going to be capacitors. I've a few I need to replace caps in myself, I just never feel like doing it. How about belts? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryanmercer #9 Posted December 9, 2015 How about belts? Sure belts go to, but I've 9 drives now, 7 I've tested and 3 of those 7 have bad caps for sure and a 4th will randomly fail to write stuff but I haven't taken it apart yet. Out of the 7 I've tested none had belt issues, although belt issues seem semi-common on here. One of the two I haven't tested I don't hold hope for, it has a pretty wicked crack in it's case. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Star castler #10 Posted December 9, 2015 How so? won't power up, won't boot or ?? 1 1050 and 1 810 fail to load disks, the other 1050 won't power on, and the other 810 turns on but doesn't seem to do anything. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AtariGeezer #11 Posted December 9, 2015 1 1050 and 1 810 fail to load disks, the other 1050 won't power on, and the other 810 turns on but doesn't seem to do anything. The two that fail to load disks, might just need a head cleaning with 100% isopropyl alcohol. The 810 that doesn't seem to do anything, might just need the daughter board on the sideboard to be reseated. Mine do this if bumped too often... The 1050 that won't power on could either be bad caps or bad regulators. The first two, you can try first before sending them off... 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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