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.

  • Generator@lemmy.pt
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    1 year 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.comOP
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      1 year 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.