Is there a software emulates a SATA interface on a USB storage device, tricking Windows into recognizing the USB SSD as a SATA SSD.

Sandisk Extreme Portable is locked under bios password - dont know the password or even the computer I did this on. I tried many methods. Found that secure erase will work on AOEMI Partition Assistant if I can make windows see the usb as a sata device.

I do not care about the data. Hate that this thing is locked. Been on the backburner of stuff do fix and was hoping to correct this issue.

  • Violet_McQuasional@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 years ago

    You could (carefully) run a dd command to blast the partition data off the drive, in Linux or any Unix based system.

    Let’s say your drive was recognised as /dev/sdc when you plugged it in.

    First, make sure it’s unmounted:

    1. sudo umount /dev/sdc

    Then blast a gigabyte of zeros over the partition information: 2. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1G count=1

    The partition information is usually stored on the very first couple of megabytes on the drive, so blasting a gig’s worth of zeros linearly onto it should make it show up as an empty device next time you unplug and plug it in.

    • tal@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      I’m not familiar with whatever this Sandisk portable thing is, but SanDisk is a drive manufacturer, in which case it may be drive-level.

      googles

      Sounds like when it’s locked, the drive presents itself as a CD drive containing a Windows executable that unlocks it.

      https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/how-do-i-fully-remove-sandisk-unlocker/

      I wouldn’t expect Linux to be able to write to it if that’s it. It won’t even see the actual drive, just the non-writeable CD drive.

      Honestly, I’d probably just write off the drive if the data isn’t important. The amount of time that’s required to basically get a used hard drive is probably not going to be worth it.

  • Generator@lemmy.ptEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Not related to selfhosted but OK.

    Don’t know about such software for Windows, but if you run Windows on a virtual machine on Linux, like virt-manager/libvirt you can add the USB as a local SSD.
    Virt-manager isn’t the most user friendly, but have a lot of features

    • path0l0gy@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I just don’t know where to ask questions sometimes. This group is typically the most well rounded for any problem that I know.

    • path0l0gy@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Problem is no volumes can be created. It’s locked via ata. But it’s portable drive so doesn’t show as ata in bios. So annoying