![]() ![]() No secure erase, no sanitize, no disk check, no firmware update. Have you tried that yet?Ĭrucial's software can see the drive but otherwise do nothing else to it. It works by sending a voltage spike to each cell that resets the cells to an empty state. Secure Erase is the equivalent of DBAN for SSDs. That will unnecessarily reduce remaining write life.Ĭrucial's software should have something called Secure Erase. Any suggestions?įirst, you should never wipe an SSD with something like DBAN that overwrited the entire drive with ones and zeroes. Event viewer shows a failure to access a BitLocker volume.Īll I want is the drive wiped and usable. ![]() In Windows Disk Management 50% of the time I can initialize the disk, but 100% of the time it throws an error when I try to format it. In diskpart I was able to delete partitions, but format failed. In GParted (Live) I was able to clear the partition. It was a donated drive, so I'm uncertain, but the person that provided the drive agreed it might have BitLocker on it, but it had no errors or issues when he removed it from the system.ĭespite what I've tried, it throws up a variety of errors when formatting is attempted, despite the different ways I've cleaned and wiped it.ġ) Tried multiple OSes, including GParted to clear the partitionsĢ) Tried diskpart cleaning under both Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10ģ) Tried wiping the drive with DBAN (wipe completed successfully)ĭisk shows up in every OS. This SSD I think has/had BitLocker on it. I have a 1 TB Crucial SSD I'm trying to repurpose as a data drive for another system. ![]()
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