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Drive finally allowed me to issue an hdparm --security-disable NULL /dev/sda command. Thank God.

Gonna try and see if the drive just needs time to complete the wipe. It seems my issue is caused possibly by parted telling me to use NULL as the security password. The unlock command seems to think NULL is a passphrase not an empty set but then refuses to pass the command if no password or a...

Did a full wipe on my pc using parted magic. passed the command for a secure erase of my ssd and hdd with a NULL password. The ssd erase took like 10 seconds and went off without a hitch. The hdd took 2 hours and announced as finished. Disconnected my hdd to install Windows 7 to my ssd. When I...