Click of Death for Zip Drives 


  For those of you not familiar with how a floppy or disk drive operates, this
 is the key to the "Click of Death" Syndrone the affects Zip drives.

  If you dissassemble a Zip Drive and pull the bar back which extends into the
 Cavity where the Zip Disc sits when you push it in the drive, you will notice
 2 small square chip-like objects at the end of something which looks like
 tweezers.   These are the read/write heads on Zip drive and they should be
 laying flat and horizontal and parallel to each other.   If this is not the
 case, then the read/write head which does not meet the above qualifications
 and is not stiff/steady is your problem (in some cases your problem may be
 so bad that the read/write head has fallen off the tweezer like object -
 which means that your drive is not Fixable).

   As far as a fix for the problem, assuming that it hasn't reached the last
 extreme case, "A little imagination...and a steady hand" might do the trick
 but it still might all boil down to "Aligment".
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