Use HDDerese to secure erase SSD

[Holton0289]

Arent you limited to the first 2 or 3 ports P0 and P1? I went through this big ordeal trying to use HDD Erase, I got stuck on a screen that said no drives found. After searching and searching I finally found out they were in the wrong ports. I dont know if its my motherboard or what. Simple fix just move a couple cables around. Once you see the drives in the list, and you go to erase the drive, it erases so quick you start to doubt that it worked.

Do you need the boot files on the thumb driver or does HDDerase provide the nessesary files.

[beto]

Do I need to do that every time I want to reinstall windows7?
Can I use the quick format when installing windows instead?

[vaca]

It is for the user who has heavy work loading on their SSD that performance drop more quickly then normal use. If you don't feel any performance degraded on your OS, you don't have to secure erase it.

[beto]

thanks for reply.
it is safe to quick format the SSD everytime I want to reinstall windows 7?

[ffm76600]

I can't make secure delete, why ?

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Thanks to help me please

[vaca]

Try to set your SATA to IDE in BIOS, and the target SSD is plug on the native first port.

[ffm76600]

Try to set your SATA to IDE in BIOS, and the target SSD is plug on the native first port.

I have already do this but it change nothing

[vaca]

Sorry for your inconvenience.
Could you tell me which mother board you use?
You can try another tool: Gparted ?
It's more compatible with the numerous motherboards.

[ffm76600]

I have a Asus P5Q pro with the last bios.

Same problem with Gparted : i have this message with gparted "

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ su -l root
root@Microknoppix:~# hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sda
security_password=""

/dev/sda:
Issuing SECURITY_ERASE command, password="", user=master
ERASE_PREPARE: Input/output error

[Ranxerox]

Does It bad by SSD to use a lot HDDERASE.EXE?

Receive my best regards

[vaca]

I don't recommand you to secure erase your SSD too frequently,
If you don't feel performance drop obviously in your daily using , you don't have to do that.

[Ranxerox]

Is that Gigabyte has created a patch in the sector 0 of SSD erasable Windows 7.
I'm changing a motherboard MSI POWER BING BANG has AMI Bios.

Receive my best regards vaca

[Onslaught2k3]

Hdderase is an ok tool but don't recommend it because it's win98 based thus it will not allocate more than 128GB of memory. Are there any other programs which are nt, xp, or even vista-based?

[rangernoh]

Neither HDDerase nor Gparted works for me.

HDDerase: I received "ATA Security Feature Set is prohibited by the system BIOS chip !!" messages. FAQ of HDDerase suggests using S port instead of P port, and thus, I tried to put my pheonix pro in an external hard enclosure. However, I failed putting my phoenix pro in my Rosewill external hard enclosure because phoenix pro is a bit thicker than other hdds.

GParted: I received "permission denied." I tried to switch from "user=user" to "user=master" by "su" and "su -l root" commands, but with no luck --> Gparted kept asking me to keyin password which I never set up.

Can you help me, please? I really need to use either tool because my ssd is slower than any other ssds in this forum (read: 130mb, write: 90mb). I have used it for less than a month.

[Onslaught2k3]

you have to physically remove the power cable for your SSD before you boot your computer. you have to plug in the power cable between the time you actually power up your computer and you run the secure erase program of your choice. The Secure erase feature will be LOCKED if the hard drive is powered on as the the BIOS becomes available through POST. Bear this in mind and you'll be fine. You should be able to secure erase the hard drive. However, this may or may not affect you but once you secure erase the hard drive it is IMPOSSIBLE for you to use data recovery as 0 remnants of the HDD/SSDs data remain.