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.
You could (carefully) run a dd command to blast the partition data off the drive, in Linux or any Unix based system.
Let's say your drive was recognised as /dev/sdc when you plugged it in.
First, make sure it's unmounted:
sudo umount /dev/sdc
Then blast a gigabyte of zeros over the partition information:
2. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1G count=1
The partition information is usually stored on the very first couple of megabytes on the drive, so blasting a gig's worth of zeros linearly onto it should make it show up as an empty device next time you unplug and plug it in.
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.