On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Gary Gary wrote:

> In a message dated 11/5/02 10:53:56 PM Central Standard Time,

> << my A: drive is faulty/(I guess dirty) so would not recognize the system
>  disk I made using my laptop (:

Radio Shack, and others, sell floppy disk cleaning kits (The non-abrasive
kind, with a "terry-cloth" like fabric patch, a cleaning liquid such as
water-free isopropyl alcohol, and software on a floppy to scrub the heads
on the fabric and liquid, and verify that the drive is good; is preferable
to the dry abrasive disk kind.)

Trouble is, you can probably find a new drive for about the same price,
and there is no guarantee that the problem isn't a worn-out drive - which
the kit will identify, but not fix.  A disk cleaning kit is only useful
if you are trying to clean and check out a large number of drives.

Boyd Ramsay

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