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8 Can't securely erase SSD with parted magic, alternatives?
I work for a university surplus store, where data security is our number one priority, selling the products we fix is our second. With that being said, everything that we sell need to have the HDD either sanitized or destroyed, and our SSD's are wiped with Parted Magic ATA Secure erase. As you may know, wiping SSD's in a laptop can be tricky, as booting from a usb, the SSD does not wake, which means the ATA erase cannot be performed. There is nothing that I can do, other than remove the SSD and put it in a desktop, wipe it, and then reinstall it into the laptop (if the SSD is a 2.5 inch SATA). As you know the airs use mSATA. How can I securely erase these things? I get lucky and sometimes the computer wakes up after I force sleep/wake the machine to try and "wake" the SSD, and sometimes, no matter what I try I cannot get it to wake up to finish to erase the SSD. I'm stuck at the later for this particular machine, and have had no luck at all in wiping this machine. Meaning that I cannot sell it. Any other SECURE suggestions?
Thanks.
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I opted for double encryption, but I encrypted the disk and now the computer is doing nothing. I booted it up, and get a semi lit black screen. I can't boot, it gives me no option to enter my encryption key, won't let me boot into recovery, nor can I Boot to from usb, I CANT WIN.
Taylor Struna 의
How did you encrypt the drive? It sounds like you did the base level not the partition.
Dan 의
I used file vault, and encrypted the entire drive .
Taylor Struna 의
I think you did this when the drive was external in the OWC Envoy case. Then the key is on the system you used to encrypt the drive on.
Basically, the program did what it was supposed to do. The rub here it wiped out access to the recovery partition to gain access to the boot files to then ask you to supply the key as it it's also encrypted! Basically you have a Catch22 problem!
Time for Windows or Linux to reformat the drive wiping the encryption off formatting it in FAT32 or exFAT. Then you'll need to put it back in the system to format and install a fresh copy of MacOS.
Dan 의