Workaround to “Samsung Secure Erase not supported by selected SSD” As for the last one, you can open Samsung Magician, and go to Data Security to set the drive to the state you need.
For the first two reasons, you can download the latest software and update SSD’s firmware to the newest accordingly. For the third problem, you can either convert GPT to MBR without data loss in Windows 10 or connect the Samsung SSD to another MBR initialized computer and do the erasing. Those are most common causes, but not including all factors that lead to Secure Erase not supported on selected SSD. ▸Your SSD TCG Opal/Encrypted Drive feature is enabled. The Secure Erase feature does not support GPT disk. ▸Your computer runs Windows 10 with a GPT formatted partition table. ▸Your Samsung SSD such as 850 EVO does not have the newest firmware. ▸Samsung Magician is not the latest version that released.
In a nutshell, the following reasons could be one of the elements. Generally speaking, there are many factors that may lead to Samsung secure erase failed on SSD. Well, why would this happen? Why Samsung Secure Erase not supported on your SSD?
Everything goes smoothly at the beginning but the aforementioned prompt comes out and stops the erase at the end. Some users reported that Samsung Magician emerges selected SSD not supported error when they try to secure erase their 840/850 EVO SSD. That’s where the error pops up: Secure Erase is not supported by this SSD! What should I do to smoothly erase my Samsung SSD?” After a while, it finds my drive and I hit “Y” again to begin erasing. At the screen, I hit escape to get to the command line, and hit “Y” to scan. Then, shut down my computer and boot from that USB drive. I followed the guide of Samsung Magician to create a bootable USB drive first. “Want to secure erase my Samsung 850 EVO SSD. Then you start the SE program, plug in the SSD, the hot-plug is detected, and you can proceed with the SE.įinally, I second the recommendation of PartedMagic for SE, if you are having trouble with Windows and the Intel Toolbox.Secure Erase not supported on selected SSD This way the BIOS does not remember an SSD to lock, and the SSD was not locked during its current power-cycle.
It may also be necessary to have the SE program running when you hot-plug the device because I'm not sure whether Windows will lock the SSD if it gets first crack at it. You need to both power-cycle the SSD (to clear the lock condition) and boot in AHCI/hot-swap mode with the SSD disconnected. And I think the BIOS remembers the locked device, so you cannot simply power-cycle the SSD. Some motherboard BIOS will lock the SSD during POST/boot so that it cannot be secure erased.
Also, you would need to have hot-plug enabled in your BIOS if there is a setting to disable it.īy the way, in case it is not clear, the whole point of the exercise is to get into the SE program with the SSD unlocked. One striped volume?Īs for the other problem with the drive not being recognized, are you in AHCI mode? IDE does not support hot-plugging. It sounds like you have more than one problem.