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How to reformat a USB ‘thumb’ drive.

Secure Empty Trash really gets rid of files in the Trash can.

Erase a drive to remove old files or delete confidential information.

If you want to be quite sure no-one can retrieve the information from an old floppy or other data store destroy it: physically.

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