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Removing microdrives completely?
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 8:01 pm
by vanpeebles
Can you remove both microdrives completely and does the QL work ok without them?
Re: Removing microdrives completely?
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:02 am
by RWAP
The microdrives can easily be removed - they are each held on by two screws at the top, and one underneath. There is then just a flexible ribbon cable to the motherboard, but I warn you - it is a real pain to replace it (following Tony Firshman's advice, I use a cut up chip socket and attach that to the cable before plugging it into the board).
The QL will work fine without microdrive units (although I did come across one which did not recognise MDV2 as existing without MDV1 in place!).
You do of course need another storage device, such as your disk drive
