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Re: Erasing or overwriting an external SSD?
artie505
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07/31/17
11:29 PM
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Originally Posted By: artie505
Your first step erased your directory, but it left your data intact ...
I left out the in-between step whereby I initialized the entire drive thereby destroying all the data files. The zero overwrite was just added 'protection'.
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