Got a Crucial M500 240gb SSD the other day and I, at the time, thought the best idea was to just clone my old HDD and Windows. After some reading I found out this wasn't the best idea and now I need to get my clone off of the SSD.
I did some more reading and found out that the way to completely restore an SSD to factory-like status is to do a Secure Erase.
Now here is where the problem comes in: No matter where I look there are only two programs that are ever recommended to do this task: hdderase.exe (loaded via a DOS bootdisc) and Parted Magic.
hdderase.exe requires a DOS bootdisk and I have no clue what that is or how to do it because every time I've tried I have gotten nowhere.
Parted Magic boots up to an options menu and doesn't load from there. Just hangs.
My options are already next to non-existent so I don't know what else to do.
I did some more reading and found out that the way to completely restore an SSD to factory-like status is to do a Secure Erase.
Now here is where the problem comes in: No matter where I look there are only two programs that are ever recommended to do this task: hdderase.exe (loaded via a DOS bootdisc) and Parted Magic.
hdderase.exe requires a DOS bootdisk and I have no clue what that is or how to do it because every time I've tried I have gotten nowhere.
Parted Magic boots up to an options menu and doesn't load from there. Just hangs.
My options are already next to non-existent so I don't know what else to do.
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