I want to run Intel's SSD Toolbox to secure erase it, since I obviously cannot do so while it's booted, but I've not been able to create an externally bootable device via USB. I only have access to laptops, so I can't remove the drive and install it in a desktop SATA to do it. Is it possible to make a bootable Windows 7 device and run SSD Toolbox externally from it? Thanks.
Thanks, but I did , in fact, search for what I was asking, which it seems that perhaps you are not at all clear about, maybe from simply misreading my original question. I'm asking about installation TO a USB, not FROM one, which is, from my perspective, a different question than the link you posted actually addressed. I want to know if it is possible in some way to make a bootable external disk for Windows 7 in which can include SSD Toolbox. Does anyone know if this is possible? It seems like such a simple thing. I can't understand why Windows doesn't allow installation to USB drives by default.
my bad... but since your intention is to actually wipe a drive, why not just make a BartPE XP disc to run the tool? You don't really need 7 do you? as for laptop SATA drives, the connectors are EXACTLY the same as the 3.5" desktop drives.... you can pull a laptop SATA drive out and it will plug right in to a desktop without any adapters they ended that madness that was with PATA
Would Bart allow me to install the SSD Toolbox to it before I burned it to boot? I don't have any way to get my hands on a desktop that I can run the tool from, otherwise, it'd be no problem.
