![]() This is more of a noodle scratcher than anything. ![]() To be clear, since I originally used TPM which should be the encryption key manager, and I have since cleared the old TPM, I'm not REALLY worried about the data. ![]() I've since installed it in another PC, created a partition, put data on it, etc. I understand UEFI or other mechanisms can "freeze" a drive, but that wasn't the case here as no info method reported the frozen state. I may well have left BitLocker in a "locked" state, since I figured was fine since I already moved the data and had been running for some time. I finally tried the legacy boot USB which finally said that it couldn't do it because the drive was encrypted and that I needed to decrypt it first. Ok, I then tried nvme-cli on Debian which reported access denied. The UEFI version reported that it couldn't do it. I wanted to take one last poke at the data to get some affirmation that the data was not retrievable so I've been trying to use Samsung Magician's "Secure Erase". Everything worked fine.įast forward to last week, I wanted to use the drive or at least know I could safely discard the drive. The drive was encrypted with BitLocker using the SSD encryption. I bought a 2 TB SSD, so I wasn't too interested in my 512 GB. I have a Samsung 960 EVO from 2016ish (I think) and a year or so ago I built a new computer.
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