Floppy Drive Cleaning Tips

If your Floppy drive create problem during reading or writing floppy disc, taking time to read/write and showing message "Please insert a disc into drive A". These are the symptoms of dirty or weak floppy drive read/write heads. Therefore dirty heads can create errors in reading or writing and soon will not work at all.

Follow the given steps to care and clean a Floppy Drive.

• First make sure your Floppy discs are clean, unscratched and you loaded it properly.

• Always use head cleaning kit to clean drive heads that specially designed to clean the reading/writing heads. Floppy drive cleaning kit consists of cloth disk that can be wetted with a cleaning fluid.

• Using Floppy drive cleaner kit properly to clean the heads from dust. If your drive still creating problem then open it and clean the heads with a cotton swab, but when performing this be careful about head alignment.