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Old 08-03-2016, 08:32 PM   #28290
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
In actual fact, I suspect the disk would still work. It tends to take a more powerful magnetic field to scramble one than the sort produced by a refrigerator magnet, especially since the magnet is over the center of the diskette where there won't be any data stored to scramble.

Still a bad idea, but not necessarily deadly...
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Unless of course he used the magnet out of a dead hard drive.
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