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Servicing Personal Computers, 3rd Edition
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Servicing Personal Computers, 3rd Edition

by Michael Tooley
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
13h 41m
English
Newnes
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Tape and disk drives 179
As with cassette drives, the read/write heads of disk units require regular cleaning to ensure
trouble-free operation. In use, the disk surface is prone to environmental contaminants such as
smoke, airborne dust, oils and fingerprints, and these can be transferred to the read/write
heads along with oxide particles from the coating of the disk itself. Periodic cleaning is thus
essential and, although this can easily be carried out by untrained personnel using one of
several excellent head cleaning kits currently available, head cleaning is rarely given the
priority it deserves. Thus, whenever a disk-based system is bein ...
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ISBN: 9781483193670