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Does anyone have experience with letting Darik's Boot and Nuke loose on an external USB hard disk, and then setting up that disk again for normal use?

I want to completely wipe my Toshiba px1220e-1g25, and then use it again.

Notes:

  • The reason that I want to wipe the entire disk is that it contains a CDFS partition. I have tried approx. 20 programs which all fail to wipe or remove that partition.
  • This question is not identical to Started DBAN on an external by accident - can I get my data back? where the OP wants to recover data after an accidental DBAN. I don't care about the data.

FWIW I'm using Windows 7

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Jan Doggen
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Use Disk Management after running DBAN,

Start > Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management. Click the unallocated space and create a new volume.

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