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Will a fridge magnet screw up my computer?

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Won't cause any problems whatsoever. I was running an old system with a giant speaker stuck directly to the ide hard drive. The system had no problems, although come to think of it I did occasionally install programs only to have them missing on the next boot. But that was because the system installation was buggy anyway. (This was Linux BTW) even after I removed the magnet it still had strange issues. This was a very old system. Agp graphics card and all. The build log is still on here. I'll try and find a link.

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I have a couple of fridge magnets that I would like to put on my computer and I was wondering whether it would screw up my hard drive? 

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No, it won't screw anything up. 

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As long as you don't put it on the harddrive, it should be fine.

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Won't cause any problems whatsoever. I was running an old system with a giant speaker stuck directly to the ide hard drive. The system had no problems, although come to think of it I did occasionally install programs only to have them missing on the next boot. But that was because the system installation was buggy anyway. (This was Linux BTW) even after I removed the magnet it still had strange issues. This was a very old system. Agp graphics card and all. The build log is still on here. I'll try and find a link.

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24 minutes ago, Lewiscpullan said:

I have a couple of fridge magnets that I would like to put on my computer and I was wondering whether it would screw up my hard drive? 

Unless you put them on your hard drive(s) nothing will happen.

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10 minutes ago, partypanda64 said:

Unless you put them on your hard drive(s) nothing will happen.

A fridge magnet won't do any harm regardless of where it is. There's a super strong neodymium magnet in the hard drive and you think a weak fridge magnet will do anything?

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1 minute ago, ryan27968 said:

A fridge magnet won't do any harm regardless of where it is. There's a super strong neodymium magnet in the hard drive and you think a weak fridge magnet will do anything?

if it's an old spinning one it might get messed up, that's what killed my old hard drive.

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1 minute ago, partypanda64 said:

if it's an old spinning one it might get messed up, that's what killed my old hard drive.

Did you see my previous post?

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2 minutes ago, partypanda64 said:

if it's an old spinning one it might get messed up, that's what killed my old hard drive.

All hard drives have spinning platters.

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