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Is that a stiffy disk in your drive... or something else entirely?

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

"OK, you win, that is a new, at least to me, totally unexpected one!"

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Although I think our hero resorted to the brute force method a bit early on in the game. Depending on the time period and therefore the value of the drive compared to the disk, I'd have took the drive apart before griping the disk with pliers pulling with all my might!

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