Cleaning of the floppy disk drive – FUJITSU DESKPOWER 6000/SS User Manual

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Cleaning of the floppy disk drive

The floppy disk drive head (the component to read and write data) becomes dirty after used for
extended periods. A dirty head prevents proper reading from or writing to a floppy disk. Using a
cleaning floppy disk to clean the floppy drive when your drive dirty.

The method of cleaning varies depending on the OS used.

Windows 98/Me/2000/NT models

1

Insert a cleaning floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.

2

At the command prompt (Windows 2000/NT) or MS-DOS prompt (Windows Me), run

the dir or other commands that access the disk.

Example: Enter a command as shown below and press the [Enter] key.

dir a:

3

Confirm that the Floppy disk access lamp is off, then remove the cleaning floppy disk.

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