At 10:34 -0400 07/07/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But more importantly: clean the drive, then try some NEW floppies... Old floppies may seem to work, but they DO degrade and end up leaving schmutz on the drive's heads.
This is a new drive. Could older floppies (maybe five of them - from two to five years old) leave schmutz on the drive's head after only a week or so?
absolutely! It really takes only one bad apple...
Best technique for cleaning?
Floppy cleaning kits are fairly inexpensive. They're basically a floopy that has a cleaning medium in it. You dribble a solvent onto it, stick it in your drive and let it whir for a min. In leiu of that... cotton material on a tongue depressor with some rubbing alcohol will work - but you have to be very careful to not damage the heads.
I think I'm gonna break down and go to CDs, get a CD burner. This floppy problem stuff is getting old...
External burners can be had for cheap.
But... Keep in mind that burned CDs degrade too. So make dups.
- Dan.
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