I have a WD 800JD SE here that I need to wipe for the agency I work for. We are using secure erase and the problem is that we cannot wipe these drives because of a “BIOS Dependent” security feature that prevents any changes in liue of protecting against password changes by maware.
On that note, we have even swapped the WD800JD with a completely different make and mode PC and still could not get past the ATA security feature.
How can I unlock these drive so they can be securely wiped?
Im not sure a low-level wipe is what we need. We need to be erasing the drives securely instead of a generalized full format.
I was hoping there was a way to bypass the SSE set to run the program Secure Erase (HDDErase.exe) I continue to get the failure that hdderase cannot run because of the ATA Security set. I am doubtful that any of the jumper settings will bypass SSE.
