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How to wipe a USB hard drive
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Mar 15, 20264945 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have a USB hard drive that I'm planning on donating. Before I donate it, however, I want to be sure that it has been completely and unrecoverably wiped of personal information. Darik's Boot-and-Nuke works for a built-in drive, but not for USB. Is there anything that will wipe an external USB? I'm…
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Boot up an Ubuntu live CD, open up the partition editor, and use the dropdown box in the upper right to find the drive with the correct size and contents to be your UBS disk (make sure you get this right, or you could end up wiping the wrong drive!)…
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