Mac 128K - boot problems flashing x disk icon

I just recently purchased a Mac 128K off of eBay and was very excited to see that it actually worked!  Unfortunately i had to shut off my Mac 128K with ghosted icons and now when i try to reboot from the system disk all I get is the flashing X disk icon. 
This happened once before but some combination of resets, unplugs, key combos did bring to it back to life, but now it doesn't seem to work.
Any suggestions on what I should try?
Thank you,
Matt

I know older macs use 400k DD floppies and you can format a 800k DD one sided to act as a 400k.
I have the 6 original apple disks that came with the computer (1- System Disk. 2- Guided tour of Macintosh. 3- Guided tour macwrite and macpaint. 4- macwrite. 5- macpaint. 6) System and macwrite and macpaint back up)
I inserted macpaint/macwrite into an old powerbook 150 and I was able to see the old files. Wouldn't open because it says it needed more space on the disk.
The 512k I have was made the 38th week of 1984 and it appears to have never been opened (from the tamper sticker still being intact) so it could just need a good cleaning. But from what I can tell, the X icon is usually a more serious issue. .

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