Question Sanitise Crucial P1 on storage executive

[dirtrider.play]

I am getting an error while sanitising my Crucial P1 NVME. The software download page says P1 is supported.

 

[Billy Tallis]

Since the error message mentions AHCI mode, it's possible that Crucial's software only supports Sanitize operations for their SATA drives. The P1 does support Sanitize, but issuing a Sanitize command to a NVMe drive is an entirely different process to issuing a Sanitize command to a SATA drive. And doing things other than normal IO to NVMe drives tends to be difficult to impossible under Windows because Microsoft's NVMe driver is so limited.

 

[razel]

OP... Nice story. Did you check any of what it says?

 

[VirtualLarry]

The BIOS in my Asus B450-F ROG STRIX ATX mobo, offers a "Secure Erase" feature, that works for BOTH SATA and NVMe. I've used it on my two Intel 660p 1TB NVMe SSDs that I have installed, when I re-formatted my system.

 

[dirtrider.play]

I dont have Secure Erase feature in bios. What else can i do?

 

[Jimminy]

I dont have Secure Erase feature in bios. What else can i do?

Try a utility like C cleaner (free version). It has a drive wiper function and you can specify how many passes, also whether to wipe free space too.

 

[ArisVer]

Also, if you are not selling the drive, just format it and continue.

 

[Shmee]

I would look into bootable utilities to do this.

 

[dirtrider.play]

I want to return the drive to the seller for a refund. I found out that traditional wiping mechanisms are not suitable for a nvme. Also the ssd specific wipe is much faster.
Can i try samsung magician or WD software?? Is there a way to confirm that the drive has been wiped?

 

[Shmee]

I want to return the drive to the seller for a refund. I found out that traditional wiping mechanisms are not suitable for a nvme. Also the ssd specific wipe is much faster.
Can i try samsung magician or WD software?? Is there a way to confirm that the drive has been wiped?

I don't think you can use other SSD vendors' tools, but a bootable linux distro that supports NVMe sanitize, something like partedmagic for instance, is very usfeful. Note that partedmagic does cost a small amount of money though.

 

[dirtrider.play]

I found this. Where can i get such a bootable{off of pen drive}linux ?

 

[Shmee]

Good find. Most linux distros are free. Choose one you like, download the ISO, and you can use YUMI or rufus to make a bootable flashdrive with it.