hi i need help .i tried to ersase my notebook hdd with buildin security erase command but bios did not allow and command aborted and locked frozend my hdd. i cannot access my hdd now.
thanks in advance.



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here are two screenshots if you need more information about the system or hdd, please let me know.

thank you.

The lock is the least of your worries, the drive is dying anyway.

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the smart warning wasnt there before i used hdderase and the hdd locked.

That would make sense, because secure erase will write 00s to every sector, which means it has to pass every sector. So as it is doing this it begins to run into all of the bad sectors that it may not normally run into during normal drive operation (assuming your not using very much of this disk) and begins the reallocation process; eventually over the course of the erase it hit enough bad sectors to trip the SMART, which predicts failure.

The data must not be valuable if you where erasing it, new HDD time.


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Exactly.

Bin it.

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