This is my first post here, so hi!
I have this SATA 3.5" Samsung 860 EVO 250gig drive. I had it connected via USB->SATA adapter and was wiping it while writing zeros 'dd' in parted magic a couple years back. The drive was disconnected during this process and it became unusable. So like any normal person I just chucked it in a drawer, got a new drive, and left the 860 evo sitting until now. I am not concerned with data, just making it work again.
I am on a win10 machine currently and I can plug the drive in and windows will detect it, and it is showing up in the device manager. It shows up in disk manager as well, with a red badge indicating the drive is not initialized. When I go to initialize it, I receive an Access denied error.
I think the drive is locked, and I dont know how to correct this. If someone could please point me in the right direction that would be excellent!
I have this SATA 3.5" Samsung 860 EVO 250gig drive. I had it connected via USB->SATA adapter and was wiping it while writing zeros 'dd' in parted magic a couple years back. The drive was disconnected during this process and it became unusable. So like any normal person I just chucked it in a drawer, got a new drive, and left the 860 evo sitting until now. I am not concerned with data, just making it work again.
I am on a win10 machine currently and I can plug the drive in and windows will detect it, and it is showing up in the device manager. It shows up in disk manager as well, with a red badge indicating the drive is not initialized. When I go to initialize it, I receive an Access denied error.
I think the drive is locked, and I dont know how to correct this. If someone could please point me in the right direction that would be excellent!