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WD Passport External HDD - wipe drive

Can I safely wipe this drive using DBAN or CCleaner and then format to NTFS? I guess I would lose the WD files included, including WD Apps Setup.exe (I have however made a copy of them on another HDD so they could be added after wiping/formatting.)

You should be able to wipe the drive.

Joe

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