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Hi Mike, Many thanks for your suggestions. I have managed to get my original dragondata drive working so that eliminates a faulty DDOS Controller I think. I suspect the motor on the the Chinon Opus drive is naff, or possibly the controller board as it worked when I first unpacked it from its deep sl...

I cannot get my two Dragon Floppy Disk Drives to work in their original case. They are both suspect and probably dead. I have tried to find a way of connecting these two old (suspect) 5.25" disk drives to my current pc that has no floppy driver connector on the motherboard but so far it has eluded a...

[quote="Alastair"]Casper, you may wish to check out the following two YouTube videos by forum member Stig (though it has been over a year since he last logged on to the forum). The videos show how he replaced the faulty power supply in his disc drive unit with a modern one. Thanks for that, Alastair...

Alastair, Thank you for the welcome. I agree it is unlikely to be the drives per se. The power supply seems the most likely culprit. The interior of the unit looks very clean with no signs of corrosion or ‘powder’ , as far as I can see. I am trying to source a local repair service that can handle vi...

I'm new to the forum so please bear with me. Way back in 1983 I bough my first Dragon 32 and a year later bought the 64. Many happy hours of computing stretched out before me. Every year I visited a Dragon Computer Fair at, I think Eastbourne on the south coast, purchasing the latest hardware and so...