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Old July 27th 18, 12:04 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Roger Blake[_2_]
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Default What's the best way to fully erase external working USB HDDs?

On 2018-07-26, Ant wrote:
Thanks. I didn't know dd was good enough to do that like dban. I will
try that.


You might want to try ddrescue, it will give you a detailed progress
indicator.

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