Hi, Darren;  Many different companies make parallel port floppy drives
(Pacific Rim and Microsolutions {aka Backpack}, for two.)

If you cannot find any, I'll see what I can see, they're quite often $70
USD or so, but sometimes I can find one for less - and, of course,
they're not bootable devices, unfortunately.  One local place has these
fairly often, I was planning to go there tomorrow anyways so I'll go
look.

Another possibility: one of those LS120 External Floppy drives, those
read regular floppies as well IIRC.

And, of course, if you can tell us what make & model the floppy drive
IS, some surplus place may have the same part (but not labeled as an
Olivetti Spare, per se), in stock.

  Mark

Darren Logan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>     My friend has managed to break his floppy drive in his Olivetti notebook.
>     I cannot find any UK dealers in Olivetti spares.
>
>     Can anyone suggest what else I can use ?, e.g, an external drive ?
>     A drive that connects to the printer port ?
>     Etc...
>
> Thanks,
> Darren