My PC and Laptop Hard Drives were damaged by the magnetic mechanism of DVD Player

Please is anyone able to confirm this MYTH.
I experienced this problem within the pace of a week. I multitask my LCD TV as a Monitor, which implied placing my Desktop Tower very close to my DVD Player. I enjoyed the feature for a few weeks only for the OS to start malfunctioning, attempting to reload the OS return a Hard Disk Error and that was is for that Hard Disk. A few days later, I decided to use the extended screen feature of my laptop for the same purpose. This worked for a couple of days as well and a similar OS problem occurred, on attempting to re-image my Laptop, a Hard Disk Error was returned as well. I initially concluded it might be something with the LCD TV only to be told by a Maintenance Engineer that the magnetic mechanism of a DVD Player is able to damage part of a PC Hard Disk.
Please is anyone in the house able to confirm this as well as suggest a solution in retrieving my Hard Disks

Thanx