How to clean a Floppy Drive?
If
your Floppy drive create problem during reading or writing floppy disc,
taking time to read/write and showing message "Please insert a disc into
drive A". These are the symptoms of dirty or weak floppy drive
read/write heads.
Therefore dirty heads can create
errors in reading or writing and soon will not work at all.
Follow the given steps to care and clean a
Floppy
Drive.
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First make sure your Floppy discs are clean, unscratched and you
loaded it properly.
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Always use head cleaning kit to clean drive heads that specially
designed to clean the reading/writing heads. Floppy drive cleaning
kit consists of cloth disk that can be wetted with a cleaning fluid.
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Using Floppy drive cleaner kit properly to clean the heads from
dust. If your drive still creating problem then open it and clean
the heads with a
cotton swab, but when performing this be careful about head
alignment.