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Kaspersky Free is a good antivirus to scan an external HDD?

hdds have problems when they are suddenly turned off, on an external hdd how to turn it off correctly?

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sonicmario wrote:Kaspersky Free is a good antivirus to scan an external HDD?

hdds have problems when they are suddenly turned off, on an external hdd how to turn it off correctly?

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