1.   Any exposure to a powerful enough magnet can damage or even completely erase the data on floppy.

2.   A split-second electrical disturbance can fry your CPU, erase data on your hard drive, freeze your screen, or damage your modem.

3.   But other virus writers are closer to digital arsonists, writing virus programs intended to crash computers or erase data.

4.   It was not clear if the American crew erased any data it had collected or sought to disable any of its equipment.

5.   Ontrack officials said that when a new operating system is installed the computer in effect writes over portions of the hard drive, erasing data in the process.

6.   To erase data, a hot tip is passed over the dent, causing it to pop up.

7.   However, the CD-R was never designed to erase data but only to record data.

8.   However, you cannot actually erase the data physically on the CD-R.

9.   If it were meant to erase data, they would have named it differently.

10.   Many also had expected that the CD-R would be able to erase data.