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eppur_se_muova

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1. Carry them into the MRI room. :D

Reply to spooky3 (Original post)

Sun Jan 30, 2022, 03:56 PM

Jan 2022

Those magnets will wipe just about any magnetic media.

A colleague once forgot he had a cassette tape in his pocket and went to record an NMR spectrum. The tape was reduced to "spacy" whooshings.

A big rare earth magnet would probably do the trick as well -- no need to worry about OS or formatting, just hit it with a big magnetic field and it's unrecoverable.

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Want to view and/or destroy 50+ old 3.5 inch disks - how best to do it? [View all] spooky3 Jan 2022 OP

Carry them into the MRI room. :D eppur_se_muova Jan 2022 #1

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External Floppy Drive Nictuku Jan 2022 #3

That particular drive .... CloudWatcher Jan 2022 #4

Yes, I have that dongle. Good to know it should work spooky3 Jan 2022 #6

Thanks to all--yes, the fine print has to be checked (along with consumer spooky3 Jan 2022 #5