CD's

[Evan]

How do CD's work? Will a meginet on a CD corrupt data so it doesnt work?

THanks

[MidgetsBro]

This isn't quite a General Visual Basic question, but no, a magnet will not harm a CD. It uses a laser to change pits and lands using die, and it does not use any type of magneticly sensitive material to store data.

[Megatron]

See this link (http://www.howstuffworks.com/cd.htm).

[Evan]

Is that true? Can someone 2nd his statement?

[kalicki]

No magnet damage, lasers like he said...

[Gandalf_Grey_]

no trust me, we had fun corrupting disks (and Moniters) but CD-ROMS are optical, magnetics doesn't affect them