Minidiscs falling out of drawer
July 31, 2010 10:22 AM   Subscribe

Sony minidiscs fall out of sideways/vertical disk loader? Any fix?

I have a bunch of old home movies on minidisc. I cannot get the minidisk to stay in the loading drawer, which is vertical/sideways on my computer. Is there a solution? Thanks.
posted by jfwlucy to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)
 
Best answer: Can you run the computer on it's side so the discs stay horizontal? This won't hurt anything in the computer unless there's a fan vent that gets blocked.
posted by 6550 at 11:06 AM on July 31, 2010


Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, but...
Have you put them in the right way round? - Sony, (in their infinite wisdom), having accustomed us to the way floppy disks are insertd into floppy drives - shiny-bit first, decided to change the way MD's insert - they're inserted "sideways" compared to how floppies insert
posted by Dub at 11:42 AM on July 31, 2010


Response by poster: Jeez, 6550, you are a genius. Seriously. And thank you too, Dub.
posted by jfwlucy at 12:36 PM on July 31, 2010


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