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Computer memory is dependent on internal magnetic forces. Any other source of magnetism scrambles the magnetic information in storage, thus destroying its meaning and usefulness by the computer.

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First off, the magnet has to be very strong. An electro-magnet would work best. Secondly, the reason data gets erased it that it is stored on the hard disk magnetically. So exposing it to magnet would make most of the data unreadable.

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