Toshiba MQ01ABU032W unformatted, seems write protected

[leebishop27]

Hi everyone, I bought a 2nd hand laptop a while back and finally upgraded to an ssd, I removed the old hard drive and plugged it into my PC to wipe it for use as an external, and to my surprise it was uninitialised, it will not let me initialise it and gives me an iO error, I know the drive is fine, apparently it has a feature where if it is plugged into another machine it wipes in seconds, and I can't write to it but can error scan it with hdtune which has no errors, I read somewhere that i need to do a psid revert but don't know how to do that. I also have the drive connected directly to the motherboard sata ports and not over usb

Drive info: Model: MQ01ABU032W Firmware version: FN002S PSID: DERWEH50NMRRUCX0N31XY6M5S3837H3T

I'd just like to disable the wipe feature and use it as a normal drive, I don't care about my data on it, I already backed it up

[HddDonorMarket]

As I remember I had a drive in my training spare drives that has kinda similar issue. When connect MRT Toshiba hdd said " Apple Locked " or similar thing.
I couldn't find solution. Still waiting.
Maybe your disk same there is a lock in disk firmware when manufacturing computer.
I am waiting replies in this topic.

[fzabkar]

I read somewhere that i need to do a psid revert but don't know how to do that.

Seagate's SeaChest Utilities can do a revert for Seagate's SEDs, but it may also work for others.

https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?p=274648

[leebishop27]

When i looked it up, it said it was designed so that it would erase itself if it was connected to another machine to prevent data theft/leakage. Seems kind of stupid that it is now completely useless (even in the original machine), ill try seagates utility, it was in a dell latitude, not sure if its the original hdd as it doesnt have a dell p/n on it. i believe toshiba call it "wipe2"

[leebishop27]

When trying the seachest utilities i get the following error "erase functions are only allowed on seagate products"

When trying to revert with sedutil i get this output

c:\Windows\System32>sedutil-cli --yesIreallywanttoERASEALLmydatausingthePSID DERWEH50NMRRUCX0N31XY6M5S3837H3T \\.\PhysicalDrive2
method status code NO_SESSIONS_AVAILABLE
Session start failed rc = 7
One or more header fields have 0 length
EndSession Failed

[fzabkar]

This appears to be the original open source project:

https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/wiki/PSID-Revert
https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil
https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/blob/master/windows/PSIDRevert_WINDOWS.txt

[HaQue]

Seagates can do this even if the drive doesn't ship with the feature. It is called the Can't Recover Anything Protocol

[MindMergepk]

It is called the Can't Recover Anything Protocol