Replacing disk drive on CVP-209

[wally]

Well, my 3.5" floppy disk drive finally gave out on my CVP-209 -- I was getting disk errors. I went down to Office Depot and picked up a Sony disk drive for $29. Took it home, installed it, and it works just fine.

[cowpast]

I had the same problem on my 207 a few months ago. Tried a drive cleaner disk with some magic solution and it 's been working fine. Anyway, as you noted, replacement is cheap and easy if that does't work.

[Joe Harrington]

Wally,

Did you find this via the internet site first. Or did you just go into the store. I looked and couldn't find them on the website (Office Depot). I thought I would go ahead and buy one just in case it's needed in the future. Never can tell if it would become unavailable. I remember a long time ago there was some discussion about the type of drive....IDE or something.

Joe:)

[ericho]

Yep, a normal ide disk-drive, they got em in every computer-shop and they come in black color too.

On a 208 the ide and power-cable are a bit short, need some patience's to install

[wally]

I found the drive on the Office Depot web site -- just search for the words "internal floppy drive." After I found it on the web, I went into my local store and they had just one in stock. It's a Sony drive and it works great.