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So did Lenovo BIOS secure erase just brick my SSD?
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Mar 15, 20264634 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I tried the "Erase the Solid State Drive in the HDD bay" BIOS feature following these instructions. The message "Now erasing... It may take about 6 minutes." came up. After waiting over three hours, I dismissed the warning to not turn off the laptop. (There wasn't much else I could do.) Now my X301…
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I have seen similar issues in the past. On some motherboards, the detecting hard drive / hard drive auto discovery stage can hang if a hard drive is corrupt, badly formatted or damaged in some way. If you pulled the drive whilst it was in the middle…
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