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From: jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive (or ANY floppy drive)
Summary: Make cleaning your floppy drives a habit (Just like you should do
	 daily backups)!
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Date: 8 Mar 90 22:05:08 GMT
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I recently bought a floppy drive cleaning kit (by Kodak).  It consists of
a floppy with a special material where the disk medium would normally be, and
a small bottle of a special cleaning fluid.  You put a few drops on the
cleaning material, insert the disk, and when your Mac asks to initialize the
disk, just say "yes."  Your drive will thus be cleaned.  They recommend doing
this once for every 10 hours of drive use.  The cleaning floppy is good for
8-12 uses, and then you should go out and buy another kit.

These cleaning kits only cost about $5-8, so they're not going to break most
of us financially.  FOr the 5 minutes it takes me to go through this whole
process, it's a lot cheaper and less time consuming then losing disks with
data, opening up the Mac, or taking the Mac to the nearest authorized Apple
dealer and paying as much as $85 for them to go in and fix or clean the
drive.

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" (Just like doing your daily
hard disk backups!)


						Jim Collymore