Yes, I know. I was hoping the secure erase with Parted Magic would resolve that problem. Parted Magic will do it with it being your primary drive. You make either a USB thumb drive installation or a CD installation and boot into the USB or CD drive. Laptops make a lot of things more difficult, don't they. It is much easier with a desktop.
Do you happen to have a desktop computer handy? if so, you could possibly temporarily connect the SSD to the desktop, using the cables normally used for your optical drive.
After that, you would problably want to use a firmware-level erase program or a erase program that's designed for SSDs
And how difficult is it to remove the drive? Some laptops allow you to just pop out the drive, while others require full dissassembally. it'd be nice to know so we can plan out questions and requests accordingly.
I can have access to a desktop and plug in the SSD. If that works, then I can use the stock software to delete.
To remove the drive from the laptop is not difficult, one screw and plug.
Using the desktop and the samsung Magician software for the secure erase would be the best solution. The Parted Magic software is simply a linux based program that contains several programs, one of which is HDErase. It offers several options. The last option is to issue an internal secure erase command to the SSD. It does nothing more than issue the command. The SSD controller does the secure erase. It is used and recommended by several SSD manufacturers.
Just an quick and funny/silly update...I thought I had the right cable but didn't...darn!
Solved or work around update - $99 one. I already used up half of 258GB ssd with software so I decided to purchase a HHD Caddy and use it as a data drive :) I am going to presume that it WILL be recognized as a second drive and allow me to format it completely. Stay tuned. The caddy arrives next week.
Hello,
some what related to this topic.
I have recently destroyed my work laptop, I salvaged the SSD from it. It is hooked up as an external drive through USB, and similar to the beginning of the thread, I couldn't access it. I followed through and opened up the Disk Management.
I can see the SSD is one of the disks and "Healthy" partition(what I need to access) does not have a directory.
I also cannot open it because it has been faded out. I CANNOT partition it, I need to copy-and-paste this partition to clone to a new SSD for a new laptop.
How can I access this volume? I'd appreciate any insight ASAP, it's my work/research computer data. I do have backups, but latest backup is from few weeks ago.
I should also mention that the SSD belonged to a Linux laptop, it should have ext4 format.
Additionally,
I followed :3 Ways to Access Your Linux Partitions From Windows
I can read the files, but I cannot copy and paste it. Also, it says the size of my ~/Directory in the SSD is over 300GB, which is impossible because SSD is 120GB in total.
See if this will help. It will work with most any Linux Distro Emergency Kit - save your files from a dead OS
Also note, this thread is 3 years old, so responses may be few and far between. You may be better off, if this does not work, to start your own thread.
I have the same issue but i cannot assign a drive letter. Its greyed out. my Device mgr shows an error :
Device USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_BUFFALO&Prod_External_HDD&Rev_0000\00000002058784B&0 could not be migrated.
Last Device Instance Id: USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_&PROD_&REV_8.07\14122955000203&0
Class Guid: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Location Path:
Migration Rank: 0xF000FC000000F120
Present: false
Status: 0xC0000719
Not sure what that means. Have i lost all of my data ?? Also, the drive shows up everywhere except explorer. The driver is showing updated ive tried everything....Help ! I have family photos on there =(
Thank you so much!
Quote