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External HD - use as is or re-format?
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1506691" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>You would only see the option to zero out data if you clicked on the Security Options button on that screen. That step is not a "must do". In the process of writing zeros to the drive Disk Utility tries to identify any bad areas of the drive so they will not be used.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1506691, member: 131855"] You would only see the option to zero out data if you clicked on the Security Options button on that screen. That step is not a "must do". In the process of writing zeros to the drive Disk Utility tries to identify any bad areas of the drive so they will not be used. [/QUOTE]
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