New
#1
Locked Samsung 850 EVO SSD
Hello!
If this has been answered before, please point me to the appropriate thread.
Last night we were checking old hardware in our Service Department long abandoned from our customers (more than 8 months). Among them there was a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD 2.5" SATA. I connected the drive in our test computer, checked it with HDD Sentinel, it was in perfect condition and also passed both tests, short and long. Since the customer is no longer interested, we can keep the disk and use it in our service for backups or whatever. However I discovered the SSD is locked with a password and of course I don't know what it is! I have read somewhere that we can unlock it with the master password, so where can we find it? Is there any other solution? We tried a low level format but it won't start because of I/O errors (that is because it is locked and blocks any other command to the drive). I read elsewhere that I can unlock it using the SNID printed at the back of the drive and even tried the Samsung SNID Revert utility only to get the message that it unlocks the next level (higher, don't remember how it's called), not level 0 (disk password), so it didn't proceed.
Any help appreciated!
Data that may help:
Description: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
P/N: MZ7LN250
Model: MZ-75E250
MSIP-REM-SEC-MZ-75E250
Thank you in advance!