Intel SSD problem

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dutnguye

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it's an intel x25-e
it still still shows that it's healthy
but it won't let me install os on it, claiming access was denied

when i plug it into another system and trying to initialize it, it still say access denied?
does it mean the drive is dead?
 
What shows that it's healthy? SMART? don't trust it so much. My guess your drive is dead, prolly shows 8mb available space or something like that.
 
on disk management it shows the whole hard drive 59.4 gb available but i just can't initialize it
and after the access denied shows up, the drive dissapear from disk management
 
Did you try and use HDDErase or another 'Secure Erase' utility and not let it finish? These types of utilities put the drive in a special ATA security mode which can only be disabled with a password. If that's the case then you need to run whatever app you used again, except this time let it finish it's job and unlock the drive.

Otherwise you'll have to use a special utility to unlock it manually.
 
dutnguye said:
what kind os special utlity to unlock it manually?
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The only one that comes to mind is MHDD which allows you to do a multitude of low level commands on a drive.

But in order to unlock it you must first know the password, and that password depends on the utility that locked it in the first place. For instance with HDDErase 3.3 and 4.0 the password is set to 'idrive'.

To unlock the drive permanently using MHDD you would need to issue the UNLOCK command, and then the DISPWD command. (unlock unlocks the drive, dispwd makes that change permanent so the drive will stay unlocked from now on).
 
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