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Old July 26th 18, 02:30 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Default What's the best way to fully erase external working USB HDDs?

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:14:19 -0500, (Ant) wrote:

Hello.

What's the best way to fully erase external working USB HDDs? I don't think old
classic DBAN can handle external working USB HDDs? Any others to use in Linux,
Mac OS, and Windows to reuse the external USB HDD (not broken/dead yet)?


Boot from a Live Linux CD and

https://www.marksanborn.net/howto/wi...drive-with-dd/

/dev/hda would have to be replaced with whatever Linux recognizes the
drive as.
HTH
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