Sammy 830 "Is in a frozen state" ?

[Elixer]

Today, on reboot, windows didn't load, and I couldn't get the OS to boot no matter what I tried.
Windows, and device manager could see the SSD fine, and I could see all files, but I just couldn't boot from it anymore because of corrupted registry.

So I fired up the OS on a backup drive, ran the Samsung software to secure erase the drive, and I kept getting this error.

It said "Open case, disconnect power from SSD, and wait a few secs, and then plug it in again and hit refresh"
Fine, did that, and the same error message over and over again.

I ended up creating a USB flash drive to secure erase the SSD.

Anyone else seen this error message before ?

 

[n0x1ous]

yeah, i had that on an intel 320 when trying to secure erase. ended up having to put it into another machine as a secondary drive to be able to do the SA

 

[Hellhammer]

Some motherboards freeze the drives, which makes secure erasing harder. I get this with my AsRock Z68 Pro3 as well.

 

[Coup27]

I've only ever secure erased my 830 in using the bootable ISO/USB method. Whenever I do anything like firmware updating or secure erasing, I like to remove Windows from the equation.