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How can I wipe an encrypted hard drive? Anonymous 10/01/23 (Sun) 20:57:10 No.14172

They brought this Alienware 17 R4 laptop into the shop because they couldn't boot it

It had it's BIOS locked behind a password, and I got the master password for it from a kind soul in some forum, It now asks for an HDD password which I don't have, and nobody's replying after I asked for the HDD password lmao

I asked the owner, and she told me it's alright if I wipe it.

However, I couldn't manage to wipe it through Disk Manager "Virtual Disk Manager: Invalid function" or through DiskPart "DiskPart has encountered an error: Incorrect function. See the System Event Log for more information."

Booting through Gparted, it wouldn't load the drive at all: "fsyncing/closing /dev/sdc: Input/Output error," even when the drive is recognized when booting through Linux Mint. I don't know how much about Linux either, but I tried to format from there as well with the basic tools, but that didn't work either. I don't remember the error code, though.

I tried to boot through ShredOS, but at some point it went to 200 KB/s. Hard drive is 1TB, so that would've taken forever and I really don't want to wait that long. If it's the only option I guess I'll go with that one, though.

What can I do now? Anybody got any ideas?

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Anonymous 12/21/23 (Thu) 11:25:05 No.14183

boot any linux with the drive plugged in

use hdparm to disable ata security

if that fails see SECURITY PREPARE ERASE and SECURITY ERASE UNIT

if that doesnt work you are fucked

niggers.

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Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 22:59:30 No.14578

>>14172

DBAN can help with this. Just flash it to a usb using rufus and you should be good. That said, if you don't actually care about completely erasing the old data just do it in Linux or something with gparted - use a live usb boot if you dont wanna install it...

Worst case just smash it with a hammer lol

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Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 11:30:32 No.14595

Identify the HDD model via BIOS or physical inspection and research its default master password

Then unlock the drive with the master password:

```

sudo hdparm user-master m security-unlock [master_password] /dev/sdX

```

Wipe the drive and remove the password:

```

sudo hdparm user-master m security-erase [master_password] /dev/sdX

```

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Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 22:03:03 No.14626

>>14172

just use some strong magnets and wipe them. It doesn't damage them at all. I do it all the time. Well, I did. It was part of my job for the CIA. All it does is that it corrupts the data to make it unreadable so that you can go in there and do a full reformat and a clean install

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 09:52:24 No.14652

>>14626

short 3 second bursts in the microwave for a total of 15 seconds is better

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Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 17:56:02 No.14673

just put it in rice

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