In March I shared best practices for formatting hard drives, passing on the wisdom of Peter Krogh and dpBestflow.org. On Monday, I put yet another 1.5 TB Lacie external drive on line, and again I needed to refer to Krogh’s excellent video tutorial featured in the “Hard Drive Handling” section of dpBestflow.org.

Here I share screen shots of the step-by-step process because, 1) they serve as a quick, valuable reference to Krogh’s video, 2) I want to encourage you to do this!, and 3) Because, let’s face it, you guys just love my screen shot posts.

Zeroing out hard drives is really easy, but the steps are not at all intuitive. For PC users (and Mac users wanting the skinny on my steps), check out Krogh’s video tutorials featured in my earlier post.

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