The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

7. Clean your disk heads. Don’t use rubbing alcohol. “Try something like

a Freon-based material with 91 percent pure alcohol,” Fitzgerald says. “You can get it at some computer stores.” Or, after every twenty hours of operation, use a cleaning diskette, three of which typically come in a $15 package. Each disk, says Fitzgerald, will last about thirty cleanings.