On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Timchenko Maxim wrote:

> First thing to do is get a cleaning diskette and clean the drive.
>
> <> Max Timchenko [MaxVT]
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> On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Susanne J. Walsh wrote:
>
> > My husband has a DPS Electronics Tracer 600 laptop.  The 1.44 floppy drive
> > is not working.  Most of the time it wants to format the disk in drive A
> > because it says it is not formatted.  Even if you can get the laptop to
> > recognize there are files on the floppy disk, you cannot access the files.
>

Please note, I am not casting an dispersions or denegrating the responder
in this email.


Just curious,  cleaning the floppy drive in my experience has never
worked.  We do   work for a couple of warranty businesses and this is a
standard part of their proceedures for doing on site work.  Like wise, I
done work in conjuction with a vertical application vender that uses SCO
Unix on generic clone pc's.  Their proceedure for a software update is to
clean 20 times before applying the update which comes on floppies.  Again
this has never worked.  Any stories of success for cleaning floppy drives?

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