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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
