Have you looked at the disks that made the noise?

I bed the material on the surface of the floppy came off and is now on the 
drive head.   

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> On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:20 PM, TT <tam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I had a known good disk, then tried the old disks that gave out high 
> pitched squeals, and then tried the known good disk, and now it won't read 
> it.  I have an Imation SuperDrive and made a couple more disks with some 
> drivers, and now those aren't working either.  I feel like something happened 
> to the disk drive, but don't know for certain.
> 
> -tt
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:24 PM, J.S. Garrison <garriso...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> No. In rare cases the drives scar the disks.You can see the grooves in the 
>> magnetic media. Usually, the disks are made in other drives and the head 
>> alignment is different between drives. Often, the drive heads need 
>> demagnetizing. I  owned dozens of Old Macs and would cycle through them all 
>> until I found one with a drive good enough to read the disks. I then copied 
>> the disk's contents to the machine with the "good" drive and made several 
>> copies.
>> 
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> From: TT <tam...@gmail.com>
>> To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com 
>> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:42 AM
>> Subject: Floppy Drive Issues with Old Disks
>> 
>> I have some old floppies that I find and they are not in the best shape.  I 
>> have had this happen at least twice, so I am writing here to get some advice.
>> 
>> When I try to test out these floppies, sometimes I put one in my IIci that 
>> starts making a high pitched squealing noise as it spins the disk and the 
>> Finder indicates some kind of error.  I tried a few days later a disk I know 
>> is good, that I used a week ago and now the floppy drive cannot read it.  
>> Are my old floppies somehow damaging my floppy drives?  What can I do to try 
>> to repair them? 
>> 
>> I kind of despise floppies as it is, but it is nice to have a working drive 
>> in case I need to install some drivers.  Another floppy drive that I had a 
>> similar experience with in my SE/30.  I tried fixing by cleaning and 
>> lubricating the inject mechanism and cleaning the heads, but it didn't seem 
>> to help very much.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> tt
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