Forgot my HDD password, any way to format it and reuse it?

[novabax]

Hi guys.

Few weeks ago made a backup on a 2.5'' internal HDD and put it away for a while. Few days ago tried to add some files but realized that I've forgotten what the password was. Tried almost 200 attempts but no success. I set the password using my laptop's bios (not a CMOS password, an ATA security password)

Hdparm: https://i.imgur.com/1ZbF9lM.jpg

Smartctl: https://i.imgur.com/Kk7O8tR.jpg

I/O error if try to format the disk both on linux live & Windows. https://i.imgur.com/6hlcZZi.jpg



I got almost %90 of that data somewhere else and I am quite okay with losing the data, formatting and being able to reuse the disk.

Any idea?