ATA Password delete HDD/SSD

Have you reinserted your SSD properly? If it is using SATA cable try to check if it is inserted very well.

 

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Hopefully your correct LatinMcG and the drive is not password locked

 

secure erase should wipe it.

 

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I think everyone is waiting for this question to be answered: Do your know the password or not? There's not much sense in offering you any advice on how to erase this SSD if it's based on the wrong answer to this question.

Now onto the topic of CRC errors. They can be caused by a variety of issues:

1.) A bad SATA cable or bad cable connection; Hadron-Curious already mentioned this.

2.) The cable is not connected to either Port 0 or Port 1 on the motherboard, which are usually reserved for use with SSD's.

3.) AHCI Mode is not enabled in the BIOS settings.

4.) (Sometimes) Using Microsoft's generic SATA drivers instead of using Intel's RST drivers.

5.) There are bad blocks on the SSD; it is failing.

There are basically two ways to secure erase a SSD and start over:

1.) Use Partition Magic to perform a SATA Secure Erase - you must have the password in order to do this!

2.) Perform a PSID Revert - also referred to as "crypto-erase" - using manufacturer supplied software and the 32 character PSID printed somewhere on the SSD's label. This option is only available on TCP Opal 2.0 compliant SSD's; unfortunately the Intel 520 series does not fall into this category.

 

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buying a new one would be the option then, since formatting wont remove the password

 

I do resent hardware makers wasting resources by allowing such "bricking". >:-(
I acknowledge that data must of course be lost if passwords are forgotten. But I see no reason of making perfectly good hardware into scrap. Unless of course the manufacturer thinks the sad users will buy the same brand again... And that's probably overly optimistic! ;-)

 

It has to do with security nothing else what is the point to password your drive if u can easily remove it.

 

The manufacture allows you to secure your hardware with a password lock. It can not be the fault of the manufacture if you forget your password to unlock your hardware. If there was a way to over ride the password lock then it would not be a secure hardware lock.

 

I think you misunderstood me. A PSID Revert doesn't brick the SSD or make it useless. All you have to do afterwards is reformat it and it's ready for use once again.

 

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