840 EVO SSD encrypted on dead laptop. Can it be wiped and reused?

mguerreiro

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Oct 3, 2016
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My Dell Inspiron laptop died (would not boot at all.) I pulled the SSD and figured I buy a new laptop and use it on that. I bought a Toshiba Satellite S55-C5248 which came with Windows 10 Home and does not have a TPM module. Not surprisingly, I could not boot from my old disk and the BIOS prompt for a disk password only allowed 8 or 10 characters. I tried downloading Magician 4.9.7, but while it can see the SSD, it doesn't recognize it as Samsung drive.
I have the PSID. Is there some utility I can use to wipe this drive and reuse it?
 
Solution
This is what I did to recover an encrypted ssd.
1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HJ99DI/ref=sr_ph_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475525983&sr=sr-1&keywords=usb+to+sata
Buy this so you can plug it in to your laptop as an external hard drive.
2. Download minitool partition wizard
3. launch the wizard after the ssd is plugged in.
4. using the options, delete all partions from the drive. After clicking that button, You need to press the button in the that says apply.
5. Now you have a completely blank ssd. Add any partitions that you want to it using the tool

This is what I did to recover an encrypted ssd.
1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HJ99DI/ref=sr_ph_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475525983&sr=sr-1&keywords=usb+to+sata
Buy this so you can plug it in to your laptop as an external hard drive.
2. Download minitool partition wizard
3. launch the wizard after the ssd is plugged in.
4. using the options, delete all partions from the drive. After clicking that button, You need to press the button in the that says apply.
5. Now you have a completely blank ssd. Add any partitions that you want to it using the tool

 
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