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Dirty Floppy Drive: disk cleaners?

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From: Loring Holden
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1989 06:55
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   Three of my disks have died over the last few weeks.  By died I mean that
there is a read error when the drive tries to read from certain files on the 
disk and maybe even when the disk is being accessed at all.  The disks with
the problem are all different brands, so I think that my floppy drive is
dirty and might be causing the problem.  I only have one floppy drive in my
SE along with the Hard Drive so it has been getting a lot of use since I
got my computer in Sept. '88.

   To get to the point: I am right in thinking that a dirty drive is causing
the problem?  Have anyone else had this problem and has cleaned their drive
in an attempt to fix it?  Did it work?  What cleaner did you use?

   Please help,

   Loring
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From: hold_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Loring Holden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Dirty Floppy Drive: disk cleaners?
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Date: 16 Feb 89 06:55:14 GMT
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Organization: University of Rochester
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Keywords: disk drive cleaner, dirty drive