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Cleaning the drive heads
- Subject: Cleaning the drive heads
- From: Puckdropper <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com>
- Date: 10 Sep 2009 21:50:56 GMT
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Hello all,
I got a bunch of used games from a guy online, and have been working on
testing them out. These are old disks that haven't been used in a while,
so I know a few of them are leaving junk all over the drive head. When I
put in a known working disk after using some of the unknown disks it
doesn't work at all.
Last time cleaning the head fixed this, but I don't want to risk damaging
the heads by cleaning them too much. I've only got one drive.
Is there a safe way to clean the heads? I've got a Unidisk 5 1/4 drive, so
getting to the heads isn't too difficult, but it's not easy either.
Puckdropper
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