I have a Crucial BX500 SSD apparently with a security lock due to a Frozen State
I cannot make changes of any kind to the stored information.
I have tried Crucial Storage Executive to do a sanitize drive, it gets stuck working or ends in 1 second with no success.
CHKDSK (Win7 or 10) in read-only mode finds errors, but when trying to repair them, it suddenly ends with an error
Try the following programs without success:
Windows Disk Part
Active@ KillDisk (Windows and USB Linux bootable)
HDD Low level format tool
PartedMagic USB Bootable Linux: it finds the Frozen State, it proposes to suspend the pc and supposedly with that the lock is released... it does the whole process (I have tried all of them: secure erase, sanitize, partition deletion, etc) but there are no changes On the disk.
The SSD has the latest firmware and update the motherboard BIOS to the latest. 2 month of non-intensive use. SMART says the drive is OK
Tried leaving it plugged in overnight on the BIOS screen to do trim self-repair or whatever it does.
Try unplugging it and plugging it back in hot.
I can boot from this SSD and get into Windows 7, it works but I get Windows errors telling me to replace the hard drive and when I reboot it goes back to the original state.
It has MBR format, the Windows boot partition and C:
I cannot make changes of any kind to the stored information.
I have tried Crucial Storage Executive to do a sanitize drive, it gets stuck working or ends in 1 second with no success.
CHKDSK (Win7 or 10) in read-only mode finds errors, but when trying to repair them, it suddenly ends with an error
Try the following programs without success:
Windows Disk Part
Active@ KillDisk (Windows and USB Linux bootable)
HDD Low level format tool
PartedMagic USB Bootable Linux: it finds the Frozen State, it proposes to suspend the pc and supposedly with that the lock is released... it does the whole process (I have tried all of them: secure erase, sanitize, partition deletion, etc) but there are no changes On the disk.
The SSD has the latest firmware and update the motherboard BIOS to the latest. 2 month of non-intensive use. SMART says the drive is OK
Tried leaving it plugged in overnight on the BIOS screen to do trim self-repair or whatever it does.
Try unplugging it and plugging it back in hot.
I can boot from this SSD and get into Windows 7, it works but I get Windows errors telling me to replace the hard drive and when I reboot it goes back to the original state.
It has MBR format, the Windows boot partition and C: