Miscellaneous Cleaning Steps

Below is a listing of miscellaneous computer hardware that's rarely used today, but kept on this page people working on older computers and need to clean these devices.

Floppy drive cleaning

Why? Dirty read/write heads on the floppy drive can cause errors during the reading or writing process.

Procedures: The floppy drive is cleaned two different ways. The first method of cleaning a floppy drive is to purchase a kit at your local retail store designed to clean the read/write heads on your floppy drive.

The second method of cleaning the floppy drive is only recommended for experienced computer users. Open the floppy drive casing and physically swab the read/write heads with a lint-free foam swab soaked in pure alcohol or trichloroethane. When performing these steps, be extremely careful when cleaning the heads to ensure that you do not lock them out of alignment causing the floppy drive not to work. To help prevent head alignment issues, use a dabbing motion lightly putting the swab on the head and removing it, don't perform a side-to-side motion with the swab.

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