help! how to recover water logged floppies?

From: Innfogra_at_aol.com <(Innfogra_at_aol.com)>
Date: Mon Apr 21 03:02:01 2003

How do you clean the media itself? Will a clean paper towel work or is
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After removing the magnetic disk I use denatured ethyl alcohol and a soft
lintless cotton cloth to wipe it down. Paper towns are too abrasive, use soft
cotton, preferably lintless. Work on top of a cotton cloth also.

If there is dirt or other abrasives I would rinse this off with water and do
the final drying with the alcohol wipe.

I have used a head cleaning diskette jacket as a holder for the truly floppy
disk at this point.

I do not think you can successfully dry out a wet jacket very well, better to
discard it.

Paxton
Astoria, OR
Received on Mon Apr 21 2003 - 03:02:01 BST