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What are best practices for cleaning floppy drive heads?
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When working with legacy floppy disks, do you ever clean the drive heads? If so, when? Are there any established best practices for floppy drive maintenance?
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A Q-tip and denatured alcohol sometimes works. Just make sure the drive head is fully dry.
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