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- From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Don't clean drives!! (was Re: Problems Detected with System 6)
- Message-ID: <uerics.728096927@mcl>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:08:47 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.165942.10473@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1993Jan25.210938.10674@gallant.apple.com>
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- I had recently been having all sorts of trouble. I couldn't format any
- disks, new software was always unreadable, my backups were failing. I
- couldn't figure it out. I decided that before I would blow my college
- fund on new floppy drives, I would get a disk head cleaning kit and try it
- out.
-
- After running that through my drives, I no longer have _any_ disk
- problems; whole boxes of disks that I thought were unusable are just fine.
- So from now on, I'm going to clean my disk heads once or twice a year.
-
- - Eric S.
-
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- Eric D. Shepherd | Apple II Alliance Charter Member
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- AOL: Sheppy | doubt, rewrite from scratch."
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