First post, by Nunoalex
Please help me !
This is the third 5 1/4 disk drive that I test and the result is the same ... they tear all the disks apart
They are all making deep grooves on the disks some of them so deep that the disk medium becomes transparent and you can see through
I am desperate don't know what to do
all the 3 drives display they same behavior ..
sometimes I insert a good disk and it is accessed, I can read the files on it but after a few more uses.. "Data error... " "general failure "
as soon as I take the disk out... there they are ... small rings of indentation ... mostly on "sector zero" of where the heads initially are
and as I insert the disk one more time, two more times the rings become more and more pronounced until the disk can no longer be accessed
First when I inserted the disks they would spin with a quiet sound but now most of them make a louder sound spinning
I have gently cleaned the heads with alcohol and a cotton tip but they always seem to be clean, not a single speck of dust
these were disks that were stored in working condition and I have seen topics talking about disks "shedding" their magnetic medium yada yada yada ... this can be possibly be happening to ALL single disks I insert on this 3 drives.. I have already destroyed 15 disks of different brands
Could the heads have misaligned? lost some property ? but how ?
I inspect the heads area and I dont see anything, no hairs, no dust no foreign bodies
Please help I am so desperate.. I dont have one single operating 5 1/4 disk drive
Best regards