@thomasm wrote:
Hello Folks,
I have bought a Sandisk X300M.2 SSD from someone online without letting me that it is password protected or he wasn’t aware at all. When I tried hdparm tool with all its parameters all I can get is:
SECURITY_UNLOCK : Input/Output error
Trust me I have tried every possible parameters I found many forums but hdparm won’t serve at all.
Then I fould the SanDisk Crypto Erase Tool in teer result which was promosing at begining except that when I have created the the bootable usb to boot up with I get stuck at first screen which asks for the SSD password.
Is it possible for a workaround to solve this issue?
I appreciate anyone can help on this.
You most likely need to unlock with is a PSID Tool. If you look on the SSD there is a 32 character (3 sets of 8) PSID. From what I have looked up get a hold of samsung tech support. Tell them the password has been lost and it needs to be reverted and unlocked. They should give you a tool that you boot off of and then you can revert it back to an unlocked state.
