FM Towns Marty help!

[pixeljunkie]

So i just picked up a Marty system [after hunting for far too long]

Of course, the floppy drive is busted. It seems to be the drive belt [as it's turned into goo and is in several pieces]

I find a rubber band [how tight should it be?] and it SEEMS to be functioning. However when I go into the system settings to create a user disk which I assume is the green floppy icon, I get this error message:



Anyone know what this means? I'm disturbed because that's the same message I got when the drive belt was no good.

Sidenote: I am using a brand new floppy that I formatted to 720k...is there any other requirements I might be missing?

Also, I am doing all of this attempting to load Metal Eye 2, which is giving me this error:



which I can only assume means it needs a user disk?

any help is greatly appreciated. I am a total Marty noob.

[NFG]

The first error says that there is no disk set (ie: no disk detected).  In my experience using elastics for floppies is easy and reliable, they should be taut but not stretched very far.

Your problems may be deeper than that.

[pixeljunkie]

Your problems may be deeper than that.

any forums/links/tips?