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You could just cover the hole with a piece of scotch tape and voila, writeable!

• asveikau 4y ago
  Scotch tape, huh? I would have figured electrical tape, for opacity. I don't think I ever had to do this though.
  • command_tab 4y ago
    All the floppy drives I've ever seen had a little mechanical arm attached to a microswitch that detected the presence or absence of the write protect notch. VHS cassettes worked similarly.
    • SoftTalker 4y ago
      Audio cassettes had this also. A little tab you could break off that would prevent recording. If you later changed your mind and wanted to record over the tape, you would just tape over the hole.
  • dizhn 4y ago
    No need. It was just pushing something inside the drive. A little piece of paper jammed in the hole worked fine too. You also drilled a hole on the other side to make the disk double density.