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Old July 27th 18, 12:40 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, Roger Blake wrote:
You might want to try ddrescue, it will give you a detailed progress
indicator.


Responding to my own post, it happens that Linux Journal has a neat
little article about getting progress info using dd:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content...ess-your-image

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