Oracle : Identifying duplicates in a table without index

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When I try to create a unique index on a large table, I get a unique contraint error. The unique index in this case is a composite key of 4 columns.

Is there an efficient way to identify the duplicates other than :

select col1, col2, col3, col4, count() from Table1 group by col1, col2, col3, col4 having count() > 1

The explain plan above shows full table scan with extremely high cost, and just want to find if there is another way.

Thanks !

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