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Thread ID: 134352	2013-06-23 08:38:00	MOBO urgent advice wanted	jupiter1 (2578)	Press F1

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1346738	2013-06-24 06:03:00	I doubt any magnet that the average consumer would have could do anything to an HDD of a pc. You'd probably need something industrial. If it was the magnet you'd know because you would have irreversibly destroyed all data on the HDD or at least a portion of the HDD. Hi, That is what I thought. The magnet is /was a 40mm square piece of that brown magnet stuff that real estate agents use on their calendar cards. Hardly likely to stuff up HDD's or data. No data was corrupted. I guess that we will never know for sure what the problem was.	jupiter1 (2578)
1346739	2013-06-25 01:35:00	On the outside of the cover, pretty much right alongside of the system HDD I had a piece of homeware stuck on with a magnet. NO. I once tried to kill an HDD with a pretty strong magnet. Did everything, all over, top, bottom, sides. Took HDD cover off, all over chips etc.... Nothing, couldn't trash it. A real magnet will trash a 3.5" floppy disk though......doubt a magnet card would. As you say, most likely a cable issue.	pctek (84)
1346740	2013-06-25 03:23:00	Have you ever taken a magnet out of a hard drive? At work one of the techs once dismantled a large industrial hard drive that had died and pulled out the magnetic parts of the heads. They promptly stuck together and could not be seperated without using tools, and even with a pair of pliers it was difficult. Those magnets are inside the drive all the time at closer proximity than anything external. I expect it's an extreme example given the drive in question was physically about 4 times the size of a 3.5" hdd but you get the point.	dugimodo (138)
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