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As you're going to recycle the HDD, try to clean it as deep as you can.
As it can take a day long, do it overnight.
Boot from the WinPE. Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
list disk (it will list all drives. Identify the USB drive number)
select disk n (replace n by the USB drive number obtained with list disk)
clean all
exit (to exit diskpart)
“clean all” command will erase the drive's contents securely. It will write over every sector on the disk and zero out completely to delete data on the disk. And the deleted data cannot be recovered via usual tools.