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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    Ok thank you so much for the information, I do have a hot air rework station, I didn't take the nest quality picture sorry. I also with give it a try with reflowing the solder, but if that doesn't work, then I guess I don't have anything else to lose so I will give it a try.
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    I thought that was the case regarding the hdd. The ram card is from an other machine, there was white sugar like stuff throughout the machine and there were signs of corrosion. I know what corrosion can do and what it looks like. I have played around with it and done experiments some of which...
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    No it is the HDD. The floppy disk drive is working fine. I confirmed it by using floppy diskettes in the machine to boot it when I was trying to fix my boot issue. There was some battery sugar throughout the case that it was in and I have done what I can to clean it, but I am suspecting maybe...
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    Here is the board: (sorry about my legs being in the background) Honestly, I thought that it wouldn't be more than an afternoon's job. Would this be correct? This is the only thing that I am planning on doing the soldering to.
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    What has my floppy drive got to do with anything? I have it working great.
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    Yes the platters spin and it is even being read. It just seems to really be struggling with the initialisation process. I reckon if I can get past that, I might be able to get it to at least do something. But I have just found out that I only need a Raspberry Pi Pico for the BlueSCSI. I thought...
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    It is a Connor 40mb drive. I have seen some people remove the very small magnet that is suspended in the rubber that I did remove as it was disintegrating. I read that as the drives age, they can get weaker and sometimes are no longer strong enough to pull themselves away from the magnet...
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    Would it be OK for me to remove the small parking magnet from inside the HDD?
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    Thank you I will be very happy to get onto the stage of battery rebuilding soon. Do you think you could also maybe help me work out what is going on with my hdd? I am trying to initialise it, but the system. Is refusing to start the initialisation process. Any help would be greatly...
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    I Also am really hoping to hear about your progress, it would be most useful if your project comes along and succeeds.
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    Th Is too is amazing information, infact it even going into a good amount of detail. Thank you. As a side note, is there anyone that can tell me if there are any 3D printer files for a battery setup inside the shell of the powerbook 170 battery, that accommodates either alkaline AA, AAA, or...
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    Thank you for this information I will have to see if I can look at making one. But my poor HDD seems to be giving up the ghost. I am going to set it up tomorrow and just try and let it initialise all day. Hopefully that works.
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    Urgent answer needed, 800kb floppy disks in 1.44mb floppy drive?

    Wow thank you so much, I would love to give making some macintosh compatible 1.44mb floppy diskettes. I will see if I can make some for the other software diskettes first, but if these diskettes don't work, I will look at making some of my own with your help and the help of maybe some other...
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    Urgent answer needed, 800kb floppy disks in 1.44mb floppy drive?

    Thank you so much for the fast reply this is really helpful information, I can now look at buying them. Thank you truely.
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    Urgent answer needed, 800kb floppy disks in 1.44mb floppy drive?

    Hey I just came across this listing for some system 7.0.1 install floppy diskettes, but I noticed that in the last two pictures the sticker says macintosh classic. Will these still work on my powerbook 170? Or are they special to the mac classic systems?
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    Urgent answer needed, 800kb floppy disks in 1.44mb floppy drive?

    Oh okay, that makes sense. Thank you for clearing that but of confusing information up for me.
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    Urgent answer needed, 800kb floppy disks in 1.44mb floppy drive?

    I just found the answer in one of my other posts. The answer is yes, the powerbook 170 floppy disk drive is 100% compatible with both 1.44MB diskettes, and 800K diskettes.
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    Urgent answer needed, 800kb floppy disks in 1.44mb floppy drive?

    Thank you for this, this matrix is quite useful. But I am a little bit confused still about whether or not I can use 800K diskettes in a 1.44MB super drive in a powerbook 170. Sorry for asking this again, I am very new to all this, and I am trying to get a simple and straight forward answer to...
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    Urgent answer needed, 800kb floppy disks in 1.44mb floppy drive?

    Thank you for this, I just finished reading the whole thing, and it was really really useful, but sadly I was unable to find something that either 100% confirmed of denied whether or not the powerbook 170 floppy drive will be able to take 800 kb diskettes. Can you maybe tell me quickly if you...
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    Urgent help needed for my Powerbook 170!!!

    Hi I was wondering if there is maybe an ethernet adapter that is able to be used as a drop in replacement for the powerbook 170 modem? I remember reading something like that being done but I can't find it anymore. Whether or not it is an original accessory from back in the day or if it is a...