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The best way to clean a floppy disk is with an electromagnet not a regular magnet. If you can put it to the back of a large speaker when the speaker is turned on, that should work. On the other hand, if you wait about 10 years, that will also do it.

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If you erase memory on a floppy disk with a magnet can you store new information on it?

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Can a magnet delete everything on a computer by just putting it on the outside?

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Is a floppy disk attracted to a magnet?

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