Secure Erase

blinghound · 15 Aug 2010 at 18:19

Hey all, I recently purchased a Vertex 2E, and after I installed the IRST drivers, it mucked up my windows 7 install, and now I want to wipe the SSD to factory defaults. I tried using HDDErase, but after I typed in the command hdderase, it responded with 'bad command or file name'.

What am I doing wrong? Is there an easier way to completely wipe the drive back to default performance?

This is driving me crazy, so please help

thanks a lot

jbloggs · 15 Aug 2010 at 21:43

Did you select "IDE Mode" and disable "Native Mode" (or the equivalent) in the BIOS, as it will not run in AHCI/RAID mode?

blinghound · 15 Aug 2010 at 22:52

Yeah, I selected IDE, and the further IDE options were 'compatible' enhanced' and 'disabled'. I also searched the bootable disc I put HDDErase on, incase the 'hdderase' command was not spelt the same as the executable, or it was not in the root directory.

Are there any other tools i can use? thanks a lot

jbloggs · 16 Aug 2010 at 16:12

I ran it from a bootable USB flash drive...

blinghound · 16 Aug 2010 at 16:36

I managed to do it

. For some reason it did not like the CD-Rom, so I made a bootable USB drive and it was successful. Thanks a lot for your help. I also found out why the IRST drivers borked my install. I previously had two 500gb sammys in RAID0 on my last windows 7 install - before I got the Vertex, and even though I had changed the BIOS to AHCI, and formatted the sammys, the RST STILL picked up the drives as RAID. I had to go back into RAID in the BIOS and erase the array. I feel like an idiot now

. Thanks everyone

Nate Silvers · 16 Aug 2010 at 19:37

I just got my Vertex 2 and it messed up when I installed Windows 7 it said please insert proper media after I restarted.

I just formatted again and installed 7 again. Should I of secure erased? Will running trim peak it back?