Re: HELP!!!!!!! 5 1/4 is DEAD!

[SA Sazdanoff@pop.service.ohio-state.edu (SA Sazdanoff)]

In article <34E70B49.3B1ED932@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:

> SA Sazdanoff writes ...
> > 
> > Just got an Apple //e in BEAUTIFUL condition but something is wrong with
> > the floppy drive. The computer bleeps and Apple // is on the monitor.
> > The drive spins and spins and spins but nothing else happens. I've tried
> > several different floppies.
> > ....
> 
> 
>     Since this is a just-bought machine, you can not be sure that the
> previous owner ever cleaned the drive's R/W head. Try using a Radio
> Shack Head Cleaner Diskette to clean the head. (Remove the tab on the
> bottom side of the Cleaner Diskette, squirt Cleaner fluid onto paper
> disk, insert Cleaner Diskette into drive with bottom/open side facing
> down, close drive door, and turn On the computer. Let the drive spin the
> diskette for 20-30 seconds, then, open the drive door and remove the
> Cleaner Diskette.)  This may get the drive working.
> 
> 
> Rubywand

Thanks for the reply. I did clean the drive with an Opus disk head cleaner.
6 times! Nothing. ALthough when I took the drive apart it finally stopped
spinning (in use red light was off) and I received a syntax error message
on the monitor and a prompt. This is the only time the drive has stopped
spinning.
Further suggestions welcome.

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