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Old 10-27-2006, 11:28 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default can you erase a HD with a magnet?

A magnet gives off magnetic field which can change the polarity of magnetic particles in floppies, but in hard drives is it same? what about those metal detectors?

my questions is can you erase the files on the harddrives if you place a magnet?
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