Thank for helping. I just found an easy way in a different forum.
I need to delete 100's of Gigabytes of info off of an external drive sometimes. But I cannot afford to do a quick format.
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I need to delete 100's of Gigabytes of info off of an external drive sometimes. But I cannot afford to do a quick format.
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I opened a command prompt (start, run CMD) and used the old fashioned command line. Much faster!
Bob