rebeltaz
Experienced Member
I just finished replacing two capacitors in the high voltage circuit on my TRS-80 Model 4 only to have the disk drives stop reading the disks after a few passes.
I know that I used to have a disk cleaning disk, but that went the way of the doh-doh (sic?) bird when I quit using floppies in my PCs. When that didn't work, I had some success gently cleaning the heads with a q-tip and methanol. That was what, 20 years ago?
I don't want to do anything that would damage impossible to replace equipment, so before I do that, I would like to know if there are any other ideas?
I tried to read a disk in the secondary (top) drive, and when it wouldn't read it, I placed that same disc in the bottom drive. That is when the bottom drive quit reading. So I figure dirt came off the top head and was transferred to the bottom head...
Thanks...
I know that I used to have a disk cleaning disk, but that went the way of the doh-doh (sic?) bird when I quit using floppies in my PCs. When that didn't work, I had some success gently cleaning the heads with a q-tip and methanol. That was what, 20 years ago?
I don't want to do anything that would damage impossible to replace equipment, so before I do that, I would like to know if there are any other ideas?
I tried to read a disk in the secondary (top) drive, and when it wouldn't read it, I placed that same disc in the bottom drive. That is when the bottom drive quit reading. So I figure dirt came off the top head and was transferred to the bottom head...
Thanks...