how to cancel a 2 pass secure erase on external drive?

macgig

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its taking forever. is their a way to cancel and start over?
 
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The only way is to force eject the drive by pulling the USB cable. However, that may wind up damaging the drive - so you take your chances or wait it out. ;) I can remember it taking a very long time to do a 3 pass secure erase on a rather small hard drive. On a large drive it may take an entire day.
 
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thanks. :)
 

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