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Joystick Jerk:

I just received my degaussing coil, and had a question about it's power. The instructions do say that the coil can erase magnetic media, so is it safe to use this on the monitor when my PC with hard-drive is 2 feet below it? Should I remove the PC from the cab first and then degauss?

fjl:

I'm 98% sure it will be safe to degauss. By the way, you can also degauss with a simple magnet by simply spinning it while moving close to the magnetically damaged area of the screen.

Teebor:


It is probably safe but if the Hard Drive is not inside a metal case (i.e. Normal PC Chassis) I would remove it just in case as HDD are a lot easier to mess up then people give them credit for.

Its just a peace of mind thing really.

Joystick Jerk:

Well, I tried it with the PC still in the cab, and all went well.

Thanks for the info, guys!

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