Sticky- I spilled Soda on my Ext. Hard Drive

Mountain Dew is VERY STICKY!! I have an external hard drive (Maxtor U01E100 ) I spilled about a 1/2 cp of Mountain Dew on it.The actual hard drive is covered with a gray plastic case. There are a couple small vents at the top and bottom, where some liquid got inside. I quickly unpluged the hard drive and opened the gray plastic case to expose the hard drive. I took a blower to it, carefully, for about 10 min. Because of the sugar, everything is STICKY! Should I take some alcohol on a rag and wipe down the circuit board on bottom of hard drive before I plug back in? Any other ideas? I dont think any Dew went internal.

yeah i believe alchol will be fine.

It should be ok to use just make sure you let whatever you use to dry before you plug it back in.

as long as everythings completly dry i think it will do fine