{"id":936,"date":"2026-05-15T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=936"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:33:18","slug":"commodore-4040-disk-drive-refurb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Refurb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another Commodore 4040 dual floppy disk drive ended up in my hands, but only temporarily for repairs and refurbishing. This drive didn&#8217;t boot up in the beginning and had other small issues. I will show in great detail how to take these things apart and how to clean them and get them up to speed again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Refurb\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CPUYzPUANHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Commodore 4040 dual floppy disk drive ended up in my hands, but only temporarily for repairs and refurbishing. This drive didn&#8217;t boot up in the beginning and had other small issues. I will show in great detail how to take these things apart and how to clean them and get them up to speed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Refurb&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[196,199,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}