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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
This is actually extremely unlikely to work - most electrical degaussers are no longer sufficient, unless you step up to truly industrial sized ones. The coercivity of modern drives is incredibly high, and perpendicular recording on modern high density drives makes it all but impossible for ordinary magnets to do anything.
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Try doing it when the HD is spinning. The 60hz pulse causes the heads to jump up and down on the platters and they break off, crashing around and doing serious damage to the platters.
