[SOLVED] How to Unlock SSD

[Bot6987564332]

Hi, so yesterday my monitor just went completely black and after a while I just turned it off using the power button and rebooted but it came up with a error saying reboot and select proper boot device, I tried changing the boot orders to use my SSD which has the OS but it didn't work, finally I used one of my old HDD that had an OS to boot up the PC, and when I checked the SSD drive it was locked and write protected, I tried the diskpart command but it didn't work, it just says access denied, media is write protected. please help. The SSD is Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB

 

[SkyNetRising]

Check it with Samsung Magician.
If it says "Drive Health Critical", then there's nothing to do with it.
Replace the drive.
You can still access all data on it and clone to a new drive.

Spoiler

 

[Bot6987564332]

Ah that would explain it, says critical condition - 8.8TB written...time to get a new drive I guess thank you.

 

[randyh121]

wow I've never head of a Samsung SSD 970 EVO failing like that, thats worrisome

 

[COLGeek]

Ah that would explain it, says critical condition - 8.8TB written...time to get a new drive I guess thank you.

BTW, 8.8TB is not a lot of data. I have an older 860 Pro in my home server that has 14.2TB and counting. This is not likely a wear issue.

When you booted with the HDD, did you also install Magician to see what it reported about the SSD?

 

[USAFRet]

8.8TB is absolutely not a lot.

My 980 Pro has approx 13TB, in 12 months of use.


But, drives do die.

 

[COLGeek]

A run of Magician's diagnostic tool might shed some light on the actual health of the SSD.

 

[Cj-tech]

Hi, so yesterday my monitor just went completely black and after a while I just turned it off using the power button and rebooted but it came up with a error saying reboot and select proper boot device, I tried changing the boot orders to use my SSD which has the OS but it didn't work, finally I used one of my old HDD that had an OS to boot up the PC, and when I checked the SSD drive it was locked and write protected, I tried the diskpart command but it didn't work, it just says access denied, media is write protected. please help. The SSD is Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB

I’d run the CHKDSK utility to see if it does anything.

Worst case scenario, the warranty should be 5 years or 600 TBW for that drive, so it sounds like you may still have warranty left unless you’ve had it for a while. 8TB of usage was pitiful at best.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Worst case scenario, the warranty should be 5 years or 600 TBW for that drive, so it sounds like you may still have warranty left unless you’ve had it for a while. 8TB of usage was pitiful at best.

Problem with warranty is, if you have any personal/sensitive data on the drive.
Drive has locked itself. You can't erase it.

If you RMA the drive, you have no control over, who and how accesses your data.

 

[Bot6987564332]

A run of Magician's diagnostic tool might shed some light on the actual health of the SSD.

Hi there, I ran a full scan it said there were problems and then told me to press the recovery button which I did, it loaded for a bit before saying "Recovery failed. Check the disk connection and perform a Diagnostic Scan again". When I tried to update the driver using Samsung magician it says the update stopped due to an error, same message if I try run a short scan.

 

[Bot6987564332]

I’d run the CHKDSK utility to see if it does anything.

Worst case scenario, the warranty should be 5 years or 600 TBW for that drive, so it sounds like you may still have warranty left unless you’ve had it for a while. 8TB of usage was pitiful at best.

Hi there, no luck, it just says "Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected." but when I try to remove the read-only restriction using command prompt it doesn't work even though it says the action was successful.

 

[fzabkar]

Lots of war stories here ...

https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?p=300677#p300677