why can't i wipe a samsung 980 ssd drive?

E

ESH BOERET

New Member
hello

i want to wipe it.. so i've tried samsung magician.

but it did not gave me the option to wipe it as the option was grayed out..

why is that?

is there another way to wipe the disk?



thank you....!

and love from israel
 
You can't wipe a drive if that drive is what you are booting off of or possibly has the boot files on it required to boot. You'll need to post an image of disk management.
 
What are you trying to do? If you put it in an enclosure and connected it to another system as a non-boot drive then you could wipe it with magician, or a pass with dd on a linux bootusb

I'd probably be fine just dumping the partition and file system since all of the fragments are scattered around the disk anyway, unless you had unencrypted sensitive information in text documents.
 
If there is nothing on the disk you want to keep, the 'Clean' command in DISKPART should do it for you, whatever is on the disk. Be sure to run the command line as administrator and be careful to select the disk you want to erase as any data will not be recoverable afterwards. Pete
 
thank you all
i'm trying to wipe the ssd so i can give the computer to someone else. i want a total wipe....
i've tried the diskpart command yesterday but i did it from within the running windows. it failed.....
i've been told elsewhere to use one of these ways

Top 2 Ways for Samsung SSD Secure Erase – Unrecoverable

This page presents 2 easy ways to perform Samsung SSD secure erase. Once the SSD has been wiped, it can never be recovered by anyone else.
www.ubackup.com www.ubackup.com
 
Just use the "reset this pc" option and choose to delete all data. Or you will need to just do a fresh install of windows on the drive. You can't format a drive that you booted from, it has to be a secondary drive.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top