Richard,

Simply, I slipped a knife blade in and over the metal floppy cover and
using the blade to hold the cover down , I ejected the floppy.

Not the most fancy or scientific, but it worked.

The very next thing I did was remove the metal cover from the floppy and
immediately copied it .

Hope it works for you.

Lew Russakov
Huntington Beach, CA



Date:    Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:00:38 +1200
From:    unclerichard <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FDD jammed

My next door neighbour had her nephews staying one weekend. In the
process
of playing with her computer they inserted a3.5" into her FDD and it
jammed.

I suspect the metal phlange at the top was bent/distorted so preventing
the
FD from ejecting.

As a consequence her FD is active and playing havoc with the prgs she
runs.

Is there any way of of ejecting (forcing) the Fd out without taking the
FD
out of the case?

For some reason she is reluctant for the FD to be removed. She is also
(very) reluctant to see force - specially brunt force - used to rememdy
the
situation.

Can anyone suggest a simple strategy I might employ to extract this bad
mannered FD.

Richard Innes
Auckland New Zealand
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