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.

  • tal@kbin.social
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    1 year 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.