Recent content by JohnSSD

Full recovery. Sometimes slow, but usually fast.

Just looked and my Gigabyte Ultra gaming MB has indeed "SSD Secure Erase". The faulty SSD is out of that computer though, (that already has 4 other Samsung SSDs up and running). (For my previous 8-days wipe attempt I used an older laptop and a case to pus the SSD so its bios doesn't have it.)...

Now I wonder if I can put it near a magnet or something.

I had Sandisc usb sticks failing all the time so it sucks, but Samsung definitely sucks too. After 8 days the aomei program told me it wiped the files but I can still see them and revive them, so that's that.

Shame of Samsung. I bought the first 4TB 870evo to change an 2TB 850evo as more ...reliable. If you add the fiasco of Samsung Note 7 that ...explodes, that brand is now for me unreliable.

Well, after it ends I will check if I can retract the files (another slow process) and if I can't I will return it for a replacement. (3rd year out of 5)

AOMEI partition assistant. Don't know if the other I tried could work because they stuck at 0%. This one it shows MB/GB even if it is 0% so I left it. Others might work too. But obviously I don't know if that works...yet

A follow up: I started a very long process of wiping the drive while is plugged externally in an old laptop. The % counter shows that it wiped (don't know yet if it actually wipes anything) 67% after 5 days. Tuesday I opened the thread till now, So I guess I have 3 more days for the rest of it...

Yes there is. What can I do with it, to wipe my data?

I will give it another go with the most recent version of Magician, but magician sucks. Tried on Win10 and Win7 (I have dual boot) and doesn't see the disk. Also with other disks that I have still Magician doesn't work properly. Maybe I should put it in a microwave... then return it.

I have already bought another one, but why Samsung should walk away without paying for their fault? I used one more time DISKPART and I get this message: "DiskPart has encountered an error and the request cannot be performed due to I/O device error."

I am one of the unlucky ones who bought a 4TB Samsung 870 EVO from the (known) bad batch around Q1 of 2021. :( The SSD failed with "bad sectors" all over the place and it's under warranty (3rd year out of 5 years). Obviously I want to return it and get a replacement but, despite the bad...