Greg,
Thanks again for your expertise. I will go to Intel/and/or Crucial for
this MX100/128GB SSD. To dateI have installed 3 SSD's.
2 were Samsung 840 Pro's. Bothwent very well. This 'try' was with a
Crucial MX100/128GB SSD my OB tried
on his old PC. It did not work, but in fairness, he is not a serious new
tech adopter.
The SSD is clearly recognized in the very old ASUS BIOS (1102-last).
It tries to boot Windows 7pro-64 and Windows 8.1pro-64.
Windows fails with error code 0xc0000225. Research seems to point to
'hdw problem!'. Well Duh!
Unplug SSD and re-plug the old EM HDD (WXP) and it does NOT BOOT either.
Hmm.
Perhaps the m/b gave up the ghost? The cpu (c2d) does have one dead
coreand only 2GB of ram. 2 Strikes!!
I'll persue Intel's tools and have a look/see if/when I can get them to
run on the platform. In the end, this platform
will get gutted and rebuilt with an Asus Z77 m/b(AHCI default, EUFI
BIOS, etc.) I think I'd like to spend the time to
find out if this Crucial SSD is DEAD, or, still usable. Truly curious.
Duncan
On 07/25/2014 10:08, Greg Sevart wrote:
It's also ineffective--due to wear-leveling and reserved area/overprovisioning,
traditional utilities that write random or 0s to a disk cannot be considered
secure. For an SSD, you need to do a Secure Erase. Secure Erase is an ATA
standard whereby the drive performs a complete wipe using a
manufacturer-defined internal mechanism. There are a few options here: you can
use Samsung and Intel's SSD utilities (supported on some operating systems and
non-boot drives only), use any Linux LiveCD and run the hdparm commands
manually, or use Parted Magic ($5--bootable image) which wraps it in a nice
GUI. I do the latter.
The good news is that Secure Erase on an SSD only takes a minute or two.
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I would try the manufacturers website, I guess. I know with a regular HDD you'd have to write 0
& 1's (for example) over & over again. This would be wasteful on a SSD as you have a
limited numbers of access before it will go "bad". Interesting question.
Regards,
joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
"...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
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Subject: [H] SSD-wondering?
From: DSinc <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, July 24, 2014 3:43 pm
To: HWG <[email protected]>
Is there any program/app available that may allow me to ERASE an ssd
installed on my PC????
I may accept a 'FORMAT' program/app, but I wish to ensure that my ssd
is totally blank.
Like without ANY history remaining on it.
Thank you,
Duncan
